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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.

Research team calls for better safety standards for working youth

4/26/2012 9:23:12 AM

Kimberly Rauscher, Sc.D., assistant professor in the West Virginia University Department of Community Medicine and member of the WVU Injury Control Research Center, was a co-investigator of the project, which brought together experts from a range of disciplines working in the U.S. and Canada to synthesize what is known about young worker health and safety and to develop a policy and research agenda.

To Find a Healthy Adult, Start with a Teen

4/24/2012 8:47:08 AM

Building on its experience in developing NOT, the West Virginia University PRC makes recommendations to clinicians on helping youths quit smoking.

What does Alpha have against scientists?

4/23/2012 9:25:53 AM

In the process, Alpha‘s lawyers convinced U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers to block testimony about the health studies — and as an added bonus for the company, the pressure of such legal fights appeared to convince WVU researcher Michael Hendryx — the lead scientist examining such issues — that he didn‘t want to testify as an expert witness after all.

WVU health care research set on collaboration, innovation

4/22/2012 8:52:20 AM

And while community outreach has been a big part of the medical school for many years through its department of community medicine, it will now be the focus of a new school — the School of Public Health. The only one of its kind in West Virginia, it will focus on the second part of Health Sciences’ translational approach: Bringing scientific discoveries to the average citizen.

WVU Department of Community Medicine to host student poster session April 24

4/19/2012 8:58:17 AM

The West Virginia University Department of Community Medicine will host its 10th annual Student Poster Presentation Session on Tuesday, April 24 in the Health Sciences Center.

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