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WVU’s campus-wide effort harnesses creativity, innovation to support health care workers at WVU Medicine and around the state
A fashion designer stops creating clothing and turns her skills into making surgical masks. Cloth that might have been the mask for the Phantom of the Opera, instead is headed to J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital to become a mask that protects a health care worker in the fight against COVID-19. This, and more, is how West Virginia University is putting skills and resources from its entire campus to battle the pandemic which has killed thousands worldwide.
Gov. Justice names WVU’s Clay Marsh to lead COVID-19 efforts for West Virginia
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice named Clay Marsh, M.D., West Virginia University’s vice president and executive dean for Health Sciences, the state’s COVID-19/Coronavirus Czar during a press conference at the Capitol Complex in Charleston on Thur., March 26.
Virtual Well-Being and Mindfulness programs available
The following virtual exercise classes, wellbeing and mindfulness programs will be available to WVU and WVU Medicine employees.
WVU Dental treating emergencies only, patients asked to call ahead
To further help in the effort to stop the spread of COVID-19, we are discouraging walk-in visits. Patients should call ahead at 304-293-6208.
Long term air and water pollution to remain steady despite quarantines, says climate change expert
One of the COVID-19’s more pleasant impacts has been stories of a cleaner environment as people hunker down inside. Satellite video shows pollution dissipating across the United States and China; the usually murky Venice, Italy canals are now flowing crystal clear. So, this could be a silver lining in the coronavirus cloud?
Interest grows in WVU Extension Service gardening program during COVID-19 crisis
More than 2,300 West Virginians have signed up for Grow This: WV Garden Challenge, an annual program by the West Virginia University Extension Service’s Family Nutrition Program that encourages home gardening. Grow This, which launched in 2018, usually has a few hundred participants each year. But the program has seen a surge on interest after the COVID-19 global pandemic began shutting down businesses and schools.
WVU in the News: Managing the unavoidable
Dr. Michael Brumage, director of the General Preventive Medicine Residency in WVU's School of Public Health and medical director of Cabin Creek Health System, discusses the COVID-19 pandemic impact on rural communities with frank news.
March 26, 2020 - WVU in the News: Coronavirus
WVU coronavirus (COVID-19) news for March 26, 2020.
Goldberg honored for work in GI Cancers by OncLive® and The Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers Names
Goldberg honored for work in GI Cancers by OncLive® and The Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers Names
WVU addiction studies expert addresses the effects of social distancing on individuals in recovery
The effects of social distancing and self-quarantine are weighing on all Americans, but a WVU expert in addiction studies suggests that individuals with substance use disorders who are in the recovery process may be more vulnerable to feelings of isolation and loneliness.