Two separate overdose-related deaths at Ole Miss on Monday might have fueled interest in the Monongalia County Quick Response Team’s Save a Life Day on Thursday, as WVU students scooped up free two-dose kits of naloxone faster than anticipated. Jacob Workman of Monongalia County Health ...
BRIDGEPORT – Vandalia Health leaders joined elected officials, community partners, physicians, staff and supporters Tuesday to celebrate the grand opening of Vandalia Health Mon Harrison Neighborhood Hospital, a new $26 million hospital expanding access to emergency and inpatient care in ...
In the few years that Monongalia County Health Department’s Jacob Workman has helped distribute Narcan at Save a Life Day events, he has seen individuals return to refill their supply of the medication that reverses an opioid overdose. “There was one story about a person who talked about ...
By David Beard MORGANTOWN – Young patients put colorful hand prints on a white Hyundai Palisade Thursday morning in front of WVU Medicine Golisano Children's. And Hyundai's Hope on Wheels program presented Children's Blood Disorders & Cancer Center a grant of $100,000 to support the ...
MORGANTOWN – Vandalia Health will host a nursing expo Sept. 23, in Fairmont to connect current nursing students and recent graduates with career opportunities at Vandalia Health hospitals across West Virginia. Nurses represent West Virginia’s largest healthcare profession and serve on ...
MORGANTOWN – There has been a rise of childhood-inspired alcoholic beverages on the market, raising questions about statewide alcohol regulations. These beverages, including Buzzballz, Pop-Tarts, Hard Mountain Dew, SunnyD Vodka Seltzer and Popsicle Hard, are marketed to adults craving nostalgia, according to West Virginia University Professor of Advertising Emily Tanner. Tanner explained that this strategy works due to familiarity and emotional sympathy. “Familiarity lowers that psychological barrier, right? They don’t have to explain the flavor. Like, if you see a ...
