Filters close
Released: 12-Jan-2015 4:20 PM EST
WVU Public Health Professor to Provide Real-Time Data From Local Fracking Site Over Next Five Years
WVU Medicine

Michael McCawley, Ph.D., interim chair of the West Virginia University School of Public Health Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, plans to provide research data in real time from a dedicated scientific observation well being drilled in Morgantown.

Released: 12-Jan-2015 4:10 PM EST
WVU Research Shows Promise for Reducing Risk of Breast Cancer Spreading to the Brain
WVU Medicine

Research led by Paul Lockman, Ph.D., B.S.N., the inaugural Douglas D. Glover Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy and associate director for translational research at the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, seeks to better understand why and how breast cancer can spread to the brain with the goal of developing a way to reduce the risk of this phenomenon.

Released: 22-Oct-2014 3:00 PM EDT
NIH Grants WVU $10.7 Million for Stroke Research
WVU Medicine

West Virginia University is bolstering its faculty and scientific research on stroke to mitigate the devastating effects of the disease across the state and the nation with the help of a $10.7 million grant from the NIH over the next five years.

Released: 30-Sep-2014 3:30 PM EDT
BRAIN Research at WVU Awarded $1.5 Million
WVU Medicine

The White House announced that West Virginia University has been awarded more than $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, established by President Barack Obama to accelerate the development and application of innovative imaging technologies.

Released: 26-Aug-2014 8:00 AM EDT
New Implanted Sensor Could Reduce Heart Failure Admissions
WVU Medicine

Unexpected trips to the hospital are inconvenient and worrisome for anyone, but for congestive heart failure sufferers, they can be all too frequent. In a rural state like West Virginia, distance can be a factor. Cardiologists at WVU Healthcare’s Ruby Memorial Hospital are now only the fourth group of doctors in the nation to implant a new tiny, wireless monitoring sensor to help doctors and patients manage heart failure while eliminating the need for frequent surprise hospital visits.

Released: 11-Jun-2014 1:20 PM EDT
WVU Lab Finds Possible Link to Developmental Brain Disorders
WVU Medicine

Researchers in West Virginia University’s Center for Neuroscience have identified a mechanism in brain development that, when disrupted, may play a role in cerebral cortex circuit disorders, including autism, schizophrenia, and childhood epilepsy.

Released: 24-Sep-2013 2:00 PM EDT
WVU School of Medicine Team Examines the Dangers and Potential of Nanomaterials
WVU Medicine

After a decade of rapidly growing industrial use, unimaginably tiny particles surround us everywhere, every day, in everything we do. Used in the manufacturing of cosmetics, clothing, paints, food, drug delivery systems and many other familiar products we all use daily, little is known about the effects these materials have on health. A research team led by Timothy R. Nurkiewicz, Ph.D., associate professor in the WVU School of Medicine Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and researcher in the Center for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences, is finding inhalation of engineered nanomaterials negatively impacts gestational development in animal models.

Released: 8-Aug-2013 4:20 PM EDT
WVU Neuroscience Research to Be Featured on Cover of the Journal of Neuroscience
WVU Medicine

For the first time, The Journal of Neuroscience cover on Aug. 7 will feature an image taken from an animated video. The video is hosted on The Journal’s website and was created by a team of researchers from the West Virginia University Center for Neuroscience.

Released: 10-May-2013 2:00 PM EDT
WVU’s Rhodes Receives National Rural Health Award
WVU Medicine

Larry Rhodes, M.D., interim chair of the West Virginia University Department of Pediatrics and director of the WVU Institute for Community and Rural Health, has been named the 2013 Rural Health Practitioner of the Year by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA).

Released: 5-Feb-2013 2:00 PM EST
Study Shows Baby Boomers in Worse Health Than Their Parents
WVU Medicine

Despite having a reputation of being the healthiest and most active generation, baby boomers are actually in worse overall health than their parents, according to a new study by researchers at the West Virginia University School of Medicine.

Released: 19-Dec-2012 11:00 AM EST
Chase Selected as President-Elect of National Pharmacy Organization
WVU Medicine

Patricia Chase, Ph.D., dean of the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, has been selected as president-elect of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).

Released: 10-Dec-2012 1:10 PM EST
Males Hit by Vehicles Twice as Likely to Die
WVU Medicine

According to a newly published study, male pedestrians struck by vehicles are more than twice as likely to die as their female counterparts.

Released: 21-Sep-2012 10:15 AM EDT
WVU Public Health Study Finds Suicide to Be Leading Cause of Injury Mortality in U.S.
WVU Medicine

A published study by researchers from the West Virginia University School of Public Health and Injury Control Research Center found that suicide has now passed motor vehicle traffic crashes as the leading cause of injury deaths in the United States. Additionally, the disease rate has been declining while the injury rate has been rising.

Released: 6-Sep-2012 2:55 PM EDT
Doctor and Pharmacy Shopping Are Linked to Prescription Drug Overdose Deaths
WVU Medicine

A published study conducted by researchers at West Virginia University has found that doctor and pharmacy shoppers are at a greater risk for drug-related death.

Released: 15-Aug-2012 12:45 PM EDT
WVU Health Sciences Gets $19.6 Million Research Grant From NIH
WVU Medicine

The Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University has been awarded a $19.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will be used to address the health issues that most commonly affect West Virginians.

Released: 9-Aug-2012 11:25 AM EDT
Coben Available to Discuss WVU ICRC's Grant From CDC
WVU Medicine

Jeff Coben, M.D., director of the West Virginia University Injury Control Research Center, is available today and tomorrow to discuss the Center's $4.1-million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue as one of 11 such federally funded centers of excellence for injury prevention research, education and outreach in the nation.

Released: 9-Aug-2012 10:55 AM EDT
WVU Injury Control Research Center Receives $4.1-Million Grant From the CDC
WVU Medicine

The West Virginia University Injury Control Research Center has just been awarded a five-year grant totaling $4.1 million to continue as one of 11 such federally funded centers of excellence for injury prevention research, education and outreach in the nation, according to the funding agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Released: 27-Apr-2012 2:00 PM EDT
Surgeon Implants Diaphragm Pacemaker in Pediatric Patient
WVU Medicine

A surgeon for WVU Healthcare has implanted a diaphragmatic pacemaker in a pediatric patient, making West Virginia University’s medical center only the second in the country to use this device on a young patient, after Case-Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Released: 3-Dec-2010 9:00 AM EST
Research Disputes Suicide Data - Drug Overdoses May Cause Discrepancies in Numbers
WVU Medicine

West Virginia University researcher Ian Rockett, PhD, says the latest suicide data is misleading and most likely under-reported, since many deaths by drug overdose are not counted as suicide.

Released: 1-Sep-2009 4:10 PM EDT
Yoga Benefits Back-pain Patients
WVU Medicine

People with chronic low-back problems who do yoga also do better at overcoming pain and depression than people treated conventionally for back pain, a three-year West Virginia University study funded by NIH shows.



close
0.12403