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WVU in the News: WVU Heart and Vascular Institute surgeons perform region’s first fully robotic aortic valve replacement
Friday, February 7, 2020
Surgeons at the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute recently performed a fully robotic aortic valve replacement operation done through a small opening in a patient’s side — the first time such a procedure has been done in the Northeastern region of the country. -
Feinberg named as recipient of Community Liver Alliance award
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
West Virginia University School of Medicine Vice Chair of Research and Professor, Judith Feinberg, M.D. has won a “You Make a Difference” award from the Pittsburgh-based Community Liver Alliance.Read Feinberg named as recipient of Community Liver Alliance award full story
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School of Medicine student, LaunchLab client wins PittStop competition for early-stage startup
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
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A Thousand Miles of Snow
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Forty-four-year-old Logar, MD ’01, spent 19 days during the winter of 2019 riding his Salsa Mukluk titanium bicycle from Anchorage to Nome in single-digit weather, through wet and treacherous snow. “Every condition imaginable,” he explains. “Soft, hard, frozen, fluffy. It's everything.” -
Taking the whoop out of whooping cough
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Using animal models, WVU researchers have investigated whether an update of DTaP could strengthen the immune system’s attack on Bordetella pertussis, the bacteria that causes whooping cough.
