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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - So, here is what happened… I mean didn’t happen last week in Charleston.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Three large opioid distributors will pay dozens of West Virginia counties, cities and towns a total of $400 million for their roles in the opioid epidemic in a settlement announced Monday.

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Mon Health Medical Center has announced that Dr. Krystal Atkinson, Chief Nursing Executive and Senior Vice President of Mon Health System, has assumed the role of Chief Administrative Officer. Atkinson is replacing previous Chief Administrative Officer, Mark Gilliam.

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FAIRMONT, W.Va. - Marion County Health Department officials are hoping that as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, cases will level off or decrease as summer slowly turns into fall, although their optimism is branded as cautious.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Health insurance companies, providers, and millions of policyholders would suffer significant disruptions if President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats fail to extend the enhanced subsidies that drove record enrollment on the health insurance exchanges.

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NEW YORK - The spread of monkeypox in the U.S. could represent the dawn of a new sexually transmitted disease, though some health officials say the virus that causes pimple-like bumps might yet be contained before it gets firmly established.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Biden administration’s refrain that Americans fully vaccinated and boosted against the coronavirus could safely resume their lives is now being tested on the First Patient, the 79-year-old leader of the free world, who made a point Thursday of publicly working through his illness.

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