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MORGANTOWN, WV - West Virginia University neuroscientists have discovered a way to control how much zinc is released to specific locations in the brain.

CHARLESTON, WV - Members of West Virginia’s House Health and Human Services Committee have injected a measure of common sense responsibility into the conversation about vaccine requirements for public and private school students in the state.

PRINCETON, WV - With measles making a small comeback in the United States, it helps to know what we’re up against.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Becker’s asked C-suite executives from hospitals and health systems across the U.S. to share their biggest lesson from 2024.

PARKERSBURG, WV - Camden Clark Ambulance Service is looking to increase its numbers to fill the void with the announced closure of St. Joseph’s Ambulance Service.

MORGANTOWN, WV - During the week of March 17, 12 News and Homefinders Plus Real Estate are celebrating Colleen Kroll for her passion for helping the younger generations.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network announces the addition of double board-certified plastic surgeon James Fernau, M.D., FACS, a nationally-recognized leader in cosmetic, plastic and reconstructive surgery.

MORGANTOWN, WV - In this edition of the WVU Medicine Health Report, WVU Medicine Children’s Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr. Matthew W. Thomas told us more about the measles.

CHARLESTON, WV - Americans are facing the highest death toll from influenza since 2018, just as more people become vulnerable because of growing vaccine skepticism taking hold in statehouses and the Trump administration.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - As winter fades and temperatures rise, opportunities to enjoy outdoor exercise become more frequent in Bridgeport.

CHARLESTON, WV - The House Health Committee changed a hot-button bill on school vaccination requirements to focus on exemptions for medical reasons.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) Stroke Program at WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center recently achieved a major milestone with the successful completion of the hospital’s first aspiration thrombectomy procedures.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine has appointed Leslie K. Lawson, M.B.A., F.A.C.H.E., as the new president of WVU Medicine Summersville Regional Medical Center and WVU Medicine Braxton County Memorial Hospital, effective May 1.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Cancer Institute invites supporters to join the festivities April 25-27 as the Spring Gala celebrates 40 years of advancing cancer care, research, and outreach in West Virginia. 

MORGANTOWN, WV - Bonnie’s Bus mobile mammography unit will visit Hancock, Brooke, Harrison, and Monongalia counties offering three-dimensional (3D) digital screening mammograms and breast care education to women.

CHARLESTON, WV - “This is probably the most important bill that we will vote on in our entire careers here,” Republican Sen. Laura Wakim Chapman said a couple of weeks ago before the state Senate passed a bill 31-2.

MORGANTOWN, WV - LUCAS, a first of its kind, state-of-the-art mobile lung cancer screening unit, will visit Mercer, Greenbrier, and Nicholas counties offering low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans.

CHARLESTON, WV - If “religious freedom” is a selling point of a bill and religious leaders around the state want nothing to do with it, it’s probably bad legislation.

HUNTINGTON, WV - The measles outbreak that began in Texas is now up to 228 cases in two states, 23 hospitalizations, and one dead child, and still health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is hedging on the obvious, which is to get vaccinated.

PARKERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center will be hosting their ‘Dinner with the Docs’ event next Monday, March 24 at 6 p.m.

MARTINS FERRY, WV - Back in August of 2019, we all learned that Alecto Healthcare Services planned to close its two local hospitals –Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling and East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry — within two to three months.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Health care systems around the country are still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the new president and CEO of Marshall Health Network identified that as one of the many challenges hospitals are facing.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Mental health care encompasses a wide variety of services and treatments to promote and maintain psychological well-being.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Vandalia Health Mon Medical Center registered nurse Kyle Dean has received a DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.

CHARLESTON, WV - Jessica Carter remembers the moment she discovered she had breast cancer.

BLUEFIELD, WV - The Behavioral Health Pavilion of the Virginias is celebrating a significant birthday, marking a decade and a half of service to its community and more improvements to come.

CHARLESTON, WV - Governor Patrick Morrisey faces perhaps the first major political test of his term, centered on a classic policy debate: the government’s interest in ensuring public health versus individual consumer choice.

MORGANTOWN, WV - When Mary Supcoe was forced to give up quilting, it was perhaps the most frustrating time of her life.

CHARLESTON, WV - Medicaid, health insurance program for a half-million West Virginians, is up against uncertainty.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Erin Atkins, C.Ph.T., C.S.P.T., lead pediatric pharmacy technician in the WVU Medicine Children’s Inpatient Pharmacy, is one of two recipients of the 2025 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Board of Directors’ Pharmacy Technician Excellence Award.