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03/24/2023 - Metro News by: Brad McElhinny
CHARLESTON, WV - The agency that oversees insurance for public employees is taking three new plan options on the road because of new legislation that will raise costs.
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03/24/2023 - Becker's Hospital Review by: Mackenzie Bean
WASHINGTON D.C. - Forty-two percent of adults in the U.S. are living with obesity, meaning they have a body mass index of 30 or higher, according to an analysis from NORC at the University of Chicago.
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03/24/2023 - News Medical Life Sciences by: Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - A team of scientists from Australia and Israel demonstrates that Candida auris, a fungus associated with life-threatening and drug-resistant infections, escapes the host's innate immune response by destroying macrophages through metabolic reprogramming.
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03/23/2023 - PBS by: William Brangham & Courtney Norris
MARTINSBURG, WV - When it comes to health, rural America lags far behind the country’s urban and suburban areas.
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03/23/2023 - WTAP by: Mitchell Blahut
PARKERSBURG, WV - Governor Jim Justice is signing a bill into law that will look to take aim against the opioid epidemic.
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03/23/2023 - MetroNews by: Marsha Chwalik
CHARLESTON, WV - It’s still affordable to buy a home in West Virginia, according to a new study.
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03/23/2023 - ABC News by: Cheyenne Haslett, Eric M. Strauss, and Luke Barr
WASHINGTON D.C. - The White House COVID-19 team will wind down as the country moves out of the emergency phase of the pandemic, multiple administration officials confirmed to ABC News.
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