Announcements
WVU, CDC report week 10 results for 'MASCUP!'
The West Virginia University School of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported observation results for the tenth – and final – week of 'MASCUP!', an ongoing mask observation study.
E-cigarette users in rural Appalachia develop more severe lung injuries, according to new study
Just as e-cigarette ingredients can vary from one region to another, the health effects of vaping can have regional characteristics as well. A new study out of West Virginia University suggests that rural e-cigarette users are older—and often get sicker—than their urban counterparts.
WVU, CDC report week 7 results for 'MASCUP!'
The West Virginia University School of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported observation results for the seventh week of 'MASCUP!', an ongoing mask observation study.
‘Pain is always a perception’: Physical therapy can help prevent, treat opioid use disorder
When you think of ways to treat opioid use disorder, you might think methadone clinics and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. You probably don’t imagine stretches and strengthening exercises. But Anne Swisher—professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine—is working to address opioid misuse in an unconventional way: through physical therapy. She and her colleagues have enhanced physical therapy instruction at WVU to emphasize the profession’s role in preventing and treating opioid use disorder.
WVU, CDC report week 6 results for 'MASCUP!'
The West Virginia University School of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported observation results for the sixth week of 'MASCUP!', an ongoing mask observation study.
WVU, CDC report week 5 results for 'MASCUP!'
The West Virginia University School of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a slight decrease in the number of people who wore masks and wore them correctly during the fifth week of 'MASCUP!', an ongoing mask observation study.
WVU, CDC report week 4 results for 'MASCUP!'
The West Virginia University School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a slight increase in the number of people who wore masks and wore them correctly during the fourth week of 'MASCUP!', an ongoing mask observation study.
WVU addresses addiction crisis with novel ultrasound treatment
On the heels of the country’s deadliest year for drug overdoses, the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute launched a first-in-the-world clinical trial to investigate the use of focused ultrasound technology to treat those with opioid use disorder. The procedure marks the potential for a new innovative treatment for addiction.
WVU, CDC report week 3 results for 'MASCUP!'
The West Virginia University School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a nearly three percent weekly increase in the number of people who wore masks during the third week of 'MASCUP!', an ongoing mask observation study.
Lessons from the pandemic: What WVU has learned, accomplished and shared in the year of COVID-19
Under the quiet surface of near-stilled campuses over the past year, West Virginia University researchers, faculty and administrators have scrambled to learn more about COVID-19 and mitigate its spread, calculated how to teach online and hybrid classes and figured out how to better ensure people on those campuses could remain safe from the virulent disease that has killed more than 500,000 U. S. citizens to date.