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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS POSTER and/or ORAL PRESENTATIONS

5/21/2012 10:19:02 AM

Undergraduate, graduate students and residents are invited to submit their research and program projects for scholarly oral or tabletop poster presentation during the annual WV Rural Health Conference. Selection of abstracts for presentation recognizes statewide student/resident activities and accomplishments. This opportunity is open to all undergraduate, graduate students and residents in health professions programs and undergraduate and graduate health-related programs. Completed projects and research and/or projects in-progress will be considered for acceptance.

Sick From Fracking? Doctors, Patients Seek Answers

5/15/2012 11:03:48 AM

In the meantime, patients and doctors don't have a lot of options. In western Pennsylvania, a lot of them are referred to Charles Werntz at West Virginia University. Werntz, an occupational medicine specialist, is used to dealing with chemical exposures. Lately, he's seeing more people who live near the drilling.

Honorary degrees awarded

5/13/2012 4:29:02 PM

Robbins earned a bachelor’s degree in history from WVU in 1965. He and his wife, Joyce, established the College of Business and Economics Center for Global Business and Strategy, a chair in history, a Distinguished Professorship in Epidemiology for the emerging School of Public Health and several other funds and scholarships.

Appalachian women put strip-mining on trial

5/11/2012 4:27:43 PM

Among other things, Gibbs and her fellow jurists heard from Beverly May, a family nurse practitioner from Kentucky. She gave a rundown of the studies by West Virginia University researcher Michael Hendryx and his colleagues that point to links between living near mountaintop removal and being more likely to get cancer or be born with birth defects.

Appalachian women testify against coal industry

5/11/2012 4:26:01 PM

Rauma pointed to studies by Michael Hendryx, a West Virginia University researcher whose studies have warned of health issues associated with living near surface mining sites.

Dr. Bill Reger-Nash retires from WVU

5/11/2012 11:08:34 AM

Dr. Bill Reger-Nash, professor in WVU’s emerging School of Public Health, was overjoyed by the dozens of colleagues, students and friends who attended his retirement reception Thursday at the WVU Health Sciences Center.

Odor spurs offices' relocation

5/9/2012 10:04:55 AM

MtJoy said the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project has been assisting them and has put them in touch with the West Virginia University School of Medicine which has provided access to toxicologists, industrial hygienists and sampling instruments.

Study Shows Better Method for Diagnosing Kidney Disease

5/7/2012 11:31:04 AM

A new risk predictor for diagnosing kidney disease and measuring its progression could help physicians focus treatment efforts more efficiently, says study findings co-authored by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers and published in the May 9, 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Regional produce growers offered food handling and agricultural practices training

5/5/2012 11:26:07 AM

Training is provided by the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department, West Virginia Department of Agriculture, WVU Extension Service and the WVU Health Sciences Research Center.

Report looks at intimate partner violence in workplace homicides among U.S. women

5/5/2012 11:24:26 AM

Conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and West Virginia University's Injury Control Research Center, the research additionally stated this figure represents 22 percent of the 648 workplace homicides among women during the period of time.

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