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WESTON, WV - The Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital Wellness Committee and Pace Yourself Lewis County has announced its upcoming 5K series.

MORGANTOWN, WV - On Monday, WVU Medicine Children’s helped out local parents by providing free car seat inspections in Morgantown.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - Dr. Qaisar Syed, who specializes in pain management, received a bachelor of science degree in biology from West Virginia University and continued his education there, receiving his doctor of medicine. He served as chief resident while completing his residency in anesthesiology at Ruby Memorial Hospital and then went onto a fellowship in pain medicine at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center at Hershey, PA.

PETERSBURG, WV - Grant Memorial Hospital is the latest WVU Medicine facility to benefit from an enterprise technology transition.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - The month of November serves as National Caregiver’s Month.

WHEELING, WV - Officials with the soon-to-be-split West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources fielded questions Sunday from lawmakers about recent controversies involving an indicted employee, the alleged deletion of emails, actions surrounding an arrest of a couple who kept their children in cages and a recently fired employee of a state hospital.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Registration for a new option for Medicare-eligible West Virginia residents, the Peak Health Advantage Plan, has been running better than expected.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The West Virginia University Innovation Corporation is “in it for the long haul,” President Stacey Armstrong says.

CHARLESTON, WV - When it comes to your child, having quality and consistent medical care is likely a top priority.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Project SEARCH at WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital is recruiting interns for its 2024-2025 class.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The fourth annual Run Santa Run 5K will be held at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 10 at the Rosenbaum Family House (RFH) on the campus of WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Cabell Huntington Hospital, St. Mary’s Medical Center and Rivers Health, members of Marshall Health Network, are offering the following events and screenings for the community in November.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Dr. Larry D. Dial Jr. has been named chief physician executive for Marshall Health Network and the vice dean for clinical affairs at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.

HUNTINGTON, WV - St. Mary’s Medical Center has chosen the winners of the Spirit of St. Mary’s Award for September and October 2023.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The opening of the new WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital means more opportunities to help ailing and injured children.

FAIRMONT, WV - WVU Medicine Fairmont Medical Center is hosting a toy drive through the end of the year to restock its Emergency Department toy closet.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Heart and Vascular Institute and WVU Medicine Children’s received national recognition for their extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) teams at the annual meeting of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), the world’s leading ECMO organization that has more than 20,000 users and members from more than 50 countries.

MORGANTOWN, WV - (RNI) has been recognized as a Center for Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Care through the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Partners in MS Care program.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The Prevent Cancer Foundation’s Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program® will visit LUCAS, the WVU Cancer Institute’s mobile lung cancer screening unit and recipient of a $25,000 grant from the Prevent Cancer Foundation to increase lung cancer screening in rural West Virginia.

MOUNDSVILLE, WV - A Christmas tree auction raised more than $12,000 for the Marshall County Chamber of Commerce.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine Children’s will be holding car seat safety checks next week.

WASHINGTON D.C. - Dr. Christopher Lucas shuttled from room to room, checking on the children with mental health troubles who had streamed into his emergency department over the past 12 hours because they had nowhere else to go.

CHARLESTON, WV - The members of the West Virginia First Foundation gathered for the first time this week in Charleston, and newly elected chairman Matt Harvey said it was evident the board has serious work ahead.

WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., today announced he will not seek re-election.

DENVER, CO - A primary care-based lifestyle course improved several health behaviors in Appalachia, according to the results of research presented at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s annual meeting.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The Prevent Cancer Foundation’s Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program® will visit LUCAS, the WVU Cancer Institute’s mobile lung cancer screening unit and recipient of a $25,000 grant from the Prevent Cancer Foundation to increase lung cancer screening in rural West Virginia.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Larry D. Dial Jr., MD, has been named chief physician executive for Marshall Health Network and the vice dean for clinical affairs at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.

HUNTINGTON, WV - St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC) has named the winners of the Spirit of St. Mary’s Award for September and October 2023.

CHARLESTON, WV - The Charleston Area Alliance is excited to announce the participants of the Leadership Kanawha Valley Class of 2023-24.

WASHINGTON D.C. - Here are 42 orthopedic surgeons who recently joined new practices or added to their titles, as reported by Becker's since Oct. 2.