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WASHINGTON, DC - Mark McLaughlin, a researcher with the WVU Cancer Institute and Modulation Therapeutics Inc., USA, and his colleagues are developing a cancer treatment that zeroes in on the diseased cells with more precision.

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WASHINGTON, DC - The detente that allowed Congress to pass a law curbing surprise medical bills has disintegrated.

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CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia is among the worst states in the nation when it comes to new lung cancer cases and high smoking rates, according to a new report.

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BRIDGEPORT, WV - WVU Medicine Children’s and WVU Medicine United Hospital Center (UHC) have entered into a program affiliation to help serve the children of Harrison County and the surrounding region.

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LONDON, UK - Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has signed a deal with a U.N.-backed group to allow other manufacturers to make its experimental COVID-19 pill, a move that could make the treatment available to more than half of the world’s population.

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CHARLESTON, WV - James Hoyer, director of the state’s Joint Interagency Task Force, which coordinates the state’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, on Monday said the state’s rate of COVID transmission continues to rise.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito and the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health (NIDA), Dr. Nora Volkow, visited West Virginia University’s (WVU) Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) along with Director Dr. Ali Rezai today.

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