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• Chapman and Associates Health Care to join WVU Medicine United Health Associates as LaVale Medical Center

  Friday, January 15, 2021

  Chapman and Associates Health Care in LaVale, Md., will join WVU Medicine University Health Associates (UHA) on February 22. The practice will be operated by UHA as LaVale Medical Center.

• Four APRNs achieve advanced oncology certification

  Wednesday, January 13, 2021

  Four advanced practice registered nurses at the WVU Cancer Institute achieved Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse Practitioner (AOCNP) certification.

• Family donation gives Ruby MICU even more reason to remember patient Tex Walton

  Tuesday, January 12, 2021

  Tex Walton was the kind of patient that folks in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital will not soon forget.

• Local kids thank healthcare heroes with video message

  Tuesday, January 12, 2021

  COVID-19 has presented extraordinary challenges to our nation’s healthcare system. But at WVU Medicine, weathering the pandemic brought us closer as a team and local kids are noticing. Watch their heartfelt message below.

• In the news: 'Meet some of the healthcare workers fighting against virus'

  Monday, January 11, 2021

  Read the article that was published in The Dominion Post on Jan. 10.

• New providers join WVU Medicine

  Friday, January 8, 2021

  The following providers joined WVU Medicine in December:

• WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute explores virtual reality to combat chronic pain and other conditions

  Tuesday, January 5, 2021

  Researchers at the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) are advancing their efforts to utilize virtual reality (VR) technology to combat a wide range of neurological conditions from chronic pain to addiction and Alzheimer’s disease. A newly-published study in PAIN®, the official publication of the International Association for the Study of Pain, shows that the use of VR can provide additional leg pain relief in patients with spinal cord stimulation (SCS).

• WVU Medicine OB/GYN gives insight into COVID-19 vaccine and pregnancy

  Tuesday, January 5, 2021

  Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, pregnant patients have been advised to be extra vigilant about safety precautions, including washing their hands, social distancing, avoiding large gatherings, and wearing a face covering.

• WVU mourns loss of longtime pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Bill Neal

  Monday, January 4, 2021

  William A. Neal, MD, who earned his medical degree at West Virginia University in 1966 and enjoyed an instrumental career in pediatric medicine, died Fri., Jan 1 at home in Morgantown.

• ‘Don’t feel like a guinea pig’: New COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective

  Tuesday, December 29, 2020

  Ivan Martinez, PhD, a WVU virologist with an interest in RNA viruses, like coronavirus, discusses the COVID-19 vaccine..