News

• BeWell gets interactive with Ask Dr. Jen, visits from Gus

  Monday, March 2, 2020

  BeWell, a behavioral wellness service available to Health Sciences students, has recently launched two new interactive initiatives — Ask Dr. Jen and Visits from Gus.

• What is Implicit Bias? Learn more at an upcoming session at Health Sciences

  Monday, February 24, 2020

  "What is Implicit Bias?" — the first of a five-session sequence called Higher Level — will give an overview of implicit bias and demonstrate how even those with the best of intentions can allow inherent assumptions to cloud their judgement. 

• A message on the novel coronavirus from WVU Medicine Chief Operating Officer Ron Pellegrino, MD

  Saturday, February 1, 2020

  A message on the novel coronavirus from WVU Medicine Chief Operating Officer Ron Pellegrino, MD.

• Taking the whoop out of whooping cough

  Thursday, January 30, 2020

  Using animal models, WVU researchers have investigated whether an update of DTaP could strengthen the immune system’s attack on Bordetella pertussis, the bacteria that causes whooping cough.

• Cell-phone-sized device that stimulates nerve in neck may prevent migraine

  Thursday, January 30, 2020

  Drugs called triptans are the “mainstay of migraine treatment,” said West Virginia University neurologist Umer Najib, but typically, patients can’t take them more than twice a week. If they have a third migraine, they’re out of luck. But Najib is researching a new way to treat—and prevent—migraine attacks without this limitation: neuromodulation.

• Limited scholarships available for tobacco treatment training course

  Wednesday, January 29, 2020

  A limited number of scholarships remain for the May 20-22, 2020 continuing education course at the West Virginia University School of Dentistry.

• Cancer survivor pays it forward at Bob Huggins Fish Fry

  Wednesday, January 15, 2020

  Cancer survivor Angie Blankenship has learned to manage the challenges of healing with support from her family, friends and the WVU Cancer Institute. Now, she’s showing appreciation and paying it forward by donating to the Bob Huggins Fish Fry, which benefits the Norma Mae Huggins Endowment Fund and Remember the Miners Scholarship Fund.

• CANCELED: Faculty Engagement Event

  Wednesday, January 15, 2020

  The 5th Annual Faculty Engagement Event, set for March 20 at the Erickson Alumni Center, has been canceled.

• BeWell offers behavioral wellness services for Health Sciences students

  Wednesday, January 15, 2020

  To help Health Sciences students who are experiencing distress, mental illness or problems with substance use, BeWell is offering a solution.

• Session on Health Sciences library journals set for Jan. 21

  Thursday, January 9, 2020

  Health Sciences faculty are invited Tuesday, Jan. 21 to meet with library officials to learn more about the state of library journals, following the 2016-18 cuts.

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