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CHICAGO and LONDON, Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UHC, an alliance of 116 academic medical centers with 264 affiliated hospitals in the U.S. along with Datix, a U.K.-based provider of patient safety technology solutions, today announced the first installation of its new Patient Safety Net®/Datix (PSN/Datix) solution at WVU Healthcare. WVU Healthcare is the largest provider of healthcare services in West Virginia, with facilities that treat more than 3,600 people each day. The...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Aug. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University has been awarded a $19.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will be used to address the health issues that most commonly affect West Virginians. The grant to the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute (WVCTSI) is part of the NIH Institutional Development Award Program for Clinical and Translational Research...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The West Virginia University Injury Control Research Center (ICRC) has just been awarded a five-year grant totaling $4.1 million to continue as one of 11 such federally funded centers of excellence for injury prevention research, education and outreach in the nation, according to the funding agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "We are very honored and excited to receive this generous funding from...
AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) President and Chief Executive Officer Anthony J. Alexander will share his views on U.S. energy policy as a panelist at a West Virginia University energy forum being held this morning. Today's roundtable, A Forum Looking at America's Energy Roadmap to 2050, will be convened by U.S. Rep. David B. McKinley, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin and West Virginia University President Dr. James B. Clements. Mr. Alexander will discuss...
Annual gathering benefiting coal industry Scholars Program and cancer research aims to become one of West Virginia’s largest philanthropic events. Morgantown, WV (PRWEB) July 23, 2012 Remember The Miners is proud to announce the 2nd Annual Friends of Coal Bob Huggins Fish Fry presented by Little General Stores to be held Friday, August 31, 2012 at the Morgantown Event Center with special guest Jerry West. Kicking off Friends of Coal Bowl weekend, the Bob Huggins Fish Fry, in its second...
Grassroots coal campaign supports efforts of Norma Mae Huggins Research Endowment Fund. Morgantown, WV (PRWEB) June 11, 2012 Remember The Miners, a not-for-profit public awareness campaign dedicated to telling the story of America's coal miners, announced today it has exceeded $50,000 in contributions to the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment Fund. The Fund, created by WVU Men's Basketball Coach and Remember The Miners Honorary Chairman Coach Bob Huggins, is in honor of Huggins'...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va., April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- A surgeon for WVU Healthcare has implanted a diaphragmatic pacemaker in a pediatric patient, making West Virginia University's medical center only the second in the country to use this device on a young patient, after Case-Western Reserve University in Cleveland.Meg Throckmorton, 16, of Waynesburg, Pa., received the device after sustaining a high cervical spine injury resulting in quadriplegia while practicing for a dance...
A Defective ApoE Gene, Called ApoE4, Can Contribute to Causing Alzheimer's Disease by Failing to Synthesize the Synapse-Generating Enzyme, PKC Epsilon MORGANTOWN, W.Va., March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, researchers at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia reported a significant advance in understanding how different forms of the ApoE gene raise the risk for Alzheimer's disease. Among the...
NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mylan Inc. (Nasdaq: MYL) will host an Investor Day on Feb. 21, in New York City. Robert J. Coury, Mylan's executive chairman; Heather Bresch, chief executive officer; Rajiv Malik, president; Hal Korman, chief operating officer; John Sheehan, chief financial officer; and John Thievon, president of Dey Pharma, will present the company's financial guidance for 2012 and an overview of the company's strategic vision and growth strategy for 2013...
Researchers from North Carolina State University and West Virginia University have developed a new technology that can reduce air pollutant emissions from some chicken and swine barns, and also reduce their energy use by recovering and possibly generating heat. Specifically, the research team designed, built, and evaluated a proof-of-concept unit that incorporates a biofilter and a heat exchanger to reduce ammonia emissions from livestock barns, while also tempering – or heating up –...
