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03/18/2024 - MetroNews by: Brad McElhinny
CHARLESTON, WV - If private and parochial schools are allowed to set their own immunization policies under new legislation, West Virginia’s Catholic schools would continue to abide by existing standards.

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03/18/2024 - The Exponent Telegram by: Daisy Gibbons
CHARLESTON, WV - While hospitals are constantly trying to address staffing issues, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a shortage of dementia care specialists threatens to bring about a full-blown crisis for Alzheimer's disease care in the Mountain State.

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03/18/2024 - West Virginia Watch by: Caity Coyne
CHARLESTON, WV - As lawmakers in West Virginia overwhelmingly passed legislation this session to prohibit syringe service programs from distributing safe smoking materials — a medically sound option to decrease more risky intravenous drug use — experts who work in harm reduction have been left to ponder one question: Why?

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03/18/2024 - The Exponent Telegram by: Daisy Gibbons
CLARKSBURG, WV - Grab some tissues because allergy season is approaching.

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03/18/2024 - Charleston Gazette-Mail
LEWISBURG, WV - The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) will now offer a Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences degree program.

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03/15/2024 - MetroNews by: Brad McElhinny
CHARLESTON, WV - As medical professionals started to gather outside the governor’s reception room to encourage a veto of a bill loosening school vaccination requirements, Gov. Jim Justice said he has not yet made a decision.

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03/15/2024 - WVNews
CHARLESTON, WV - On behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the West Virginia Chapter of the AAP (WVAAP), we urge you to veto HB 5105 and protect West Virginia’s children and the public at large from preventable illnesses.

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