Two rural hospitals in Appalachia– one in Wheeling, West Virginia, the other just across the river in Ohio– announced they were closing in mid-August. Altogether, the closures will directly impact about 1,100 jobs. But, indirectly, it could affect the entire economy of the area. “What we found is when a […]
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Some candidates use Medicare-for-all to establish themselves as bold progressives or moderate pragmatists. The Trump administration uses it as a point of attack. But voters don’t know what it actually means, and none of the candidates explain it. GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Ritchard Jenkins reached into the black computer bag he […]
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Two deaths have been ruled homicides at a Veteran’s Affairs hospital in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and an ongoing investigation is leaving families of the victims desperate for answers. Federal prosecutors say they are in the “beginning of the end” of their work. But the VA and Office of Inspector General […]
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This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Health officials in Huntington, West Virginia, say a cluster of HIV infections has grown to 71 confirmed cases. That’s in a city that usually sees about eight HIV infections in a year. As with an earlier such cluster in northern Kentucky, officials say the […]
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Two decades after health officials in Southwest Virginia sounded the alarm about the devastating impact Oxycontin was having on the region, hard numbers confirm that drug manufacturers and distributors carpet-bombed Central Appalachia with the powerful drug and other opioids. An investigation by the Washington Post shows that pharmaceutical distribution of the opioids […]
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The Ocracoke Health Center is one of those vital institutions that keeps the island going, but that doesn’t always translate into fiscal health. Despite being a business leader in a busy tourist town, Cheryl Ballance sometimes has had to tell summer guests not to come to Ocracoke. “Sometimes, we’d get […]
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