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02/22/2024 - The Dominion Post by: Cody Nespor
MORGANTOWN, WV - The Bob Huggins Fish Fry has new partners, but the same mission.
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02/22/2024 - The Marietta Times
PARKERSBURG, WV - The Washington County Career Center has named its honorees for Career and Technical Education Month in February.
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02/22/2024 - The Register-Herald
BECKLEY, WV - The Southern West Virginia Junior Nursing Academy, hosted by the West Virginia University School of Nursing, will be Aug. 13-14, on WVU Tech’s campus.
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02/21/2024 - MetroNews by: Brad McElhinny
CHARLESTON, WV - The House Judiciary Committee took a bill to eliminate vaccine requirements for public virtual schools and expanded it to also eliminate state vaccine requirements for West Virginia’s private and parochial schools.
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02/21/2024 - The Weirton Daily Times by: Steven Allen Adams
CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia House of Delegates will once again decide whether to keep the state’s certificate of need system in place or abolish it.
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02/21/2024 - MetroNews
CHARLESTON, WV - The state Senate is making another go at enabling counties with lots of tourists and few residents to raise money for emergency services to accommodate all those tourists.
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02/21/2024 - WVNews
CHARLESTON, WV - The Senate is preparing to vote on a new law related to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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02/21/2024 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Heart and Vascular Institute physicians are the first in the state and region to perform pulsed field ablation (PFA), a new minimally invasive technique to address atrial fibrillation (AFib) using the Medtronic PulseSelect™ PFA system.
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02/21/2024 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine was one of seven centers invited to participate in a trial of a home wearable device to improve the symptoms of urinary incontinence and overactive bladder.
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02/21/2024 - Times West Virginian by: Esteban Fernandez
FAIRMONT, WV - Since 2020, DD Meighen has been to the emergency room at Fairmont Medical Center three times.
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02/21/2024 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health Medical Center is pleased to welcome Dr. John Nasr as a new advanced gastroenterologist provider to the hospital with a national and international reputation in endoscopy and complex endoscopic procedures.
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02/21/2024 - WVVA by: Clayton McChesney
PRINCETON, WV - On Tuesday, WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital held a celebration for a new lab that they hope will increase both capacity and convenience for patients both young and old.
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02/21/2024 - WDTV
BRIDGEPORT, WV - In this edition of the WVU Medicine Health Report, Dr. Lauren Veltri, MD, talks about CAR-T Cell Therapy. Watch the video above to learn more.
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02/21/2024 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - Bonnie’s Bus mobile mammography unit will visit Upshur and Harrison counties offering three-dimensional (3D) digital screening mammograms and breast care education to women.
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02/21/2024 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - LUCAS, a first of its kind, state-of-the-art mobile lung cancer screening unit, will visit Lewis, Ritchie, and Randolph counties offering low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans.
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02/20/2024 - WVNews by: Charles Young
CHARLESTON, WV - A bill that would permit the sale of raw milk in the Mountain State passed the West Virginia House of Delegates on Monday.
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02/20/2024 - WV Press Association
CHARLESTON, WV - Gov. Jim Justice has announced the appointment of Ann Urling as the Interim Inspector General for the Departments of Health, Human Services, and Health Facilities.
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02/20/2024 - Mountain State Spotlight by: Erin Beck
CHARLESTON, WV - More than 600 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are in need of help with tasks like grooming, shopping and cleaning their homes.
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02/20/2024 - WDTV by: D'Andre Lewis
BRIDGEPORT, WV - The human body has over 650 muscles and the only one that doesn’t rest is the heart.
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02/20/2024 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - While many parents may not be familiar with pediatric urology, it’s a crucial field addressing a range of conditions affecting children’s urinary tract and reproductive organs.
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02/20/2024 - WDTV
MORGANTOWN, WV - In this edition of the WVU Medicine Health Report, Dr. Sunil Sharma discusses central sleep apnea signs, symptoms, and treatments.
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02/20/2024 - Mon Health
WESTON, WV - Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital recently hired Mindy Mussano as its new Perinatal Nurse Navigator.
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02/20/2024 - CAMC
CHARLESTON, WV - Rebecca Brock, Karla Layne, Mary Mastro, Pam Legg, Ryan Burgess and Kayla Wright are nurses in the surgical trauma ICU at CAMC.
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02/19/2024 - MetroNews by: Mike Nolting
CHARLESTON, WV - The effort to expand the state’s DNA data base is moving in the state Senate after the House of Delegates defeated a House bill in late January.
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02/19/2024 - The Dominion Post by: Matthew A. Davis
CHARLESTON, WV - This year, a bill (SB 714) introduced in the West Virginia Senate calls for eliminating the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine, which oversees the medical licensing for osteopathic physicians (DOs) and has existed since 1923.
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02/19/2024 - MetroNews by: Mike Nolting
FAIRMONT, WV - WVU Medicine is taking another step in their $110 million revitalization of the Fairmont Medical Center announced in 2020.
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02/19/2024 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by: Abby Mackey
PITTSBURGH, PA - Yasaswi Kislovskiy knows the expanse between those who have and those who do not, because she lived it.
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02/19/2024 - The Dominion Post by: David Beard
MORGANTOWN, WV - Dr. Anthony Roda-Renzelli is a home-grown physician saving the lives of West Virginians at Mon Health Medical Center.
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02/19/2024 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Medicine Children’s Heart Center is now the West Virginia affiliate for Project ADAM, helping to provide schools and community centers with life-saving automated external defibrillator (AED) education.
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02/19/2024 - CAMC
CHARLESTON, WV - Members of the CAMC team kicked off American Heart Month by proudly wearing their red in honor of National Wear Red Day.
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