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WVU Medicine Health Report: Peripheral Arterial Disease
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Peripheral arterial disease, or PAD, affects the vascular system in the extremities. Usually occurring in the legs, the disease creates blockages that can cause pain, numbness or loss of limbs.Read WVU Medicine Health Report: Peripheral Arterial Disease full story
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WVU Health Sciences Center Faculty Development Program Noon Hour Sessions
Thursday, September 19, 2019
WVU Health Sciences Center Faculty Development Program will host a series of sessions at noon on Sept. 26.Read WVU Health Sciences Center Faculty Development Program Noon Hour Sessions full story
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WVU in the News: Don't Forget Our Frontline Caregivers in the Opioid Epidemic
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
America’s opioid epidemic will go down in history alongside the Spanish flu, typhoid, polio and AIDS as one of our worst public health disasters. Between 1999 and 2017, almost 218,000 people in the United States died from overdoses connected to prescription opioids, and almost as many more died from overdoses connected to illicit opioids. Of the 70,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017, two-thirds of them were opioid-connected. Deaths continue at the rate of 130 a day.Read WVU in the News: Don't Forget Our Frontline Caregivers in the Opioid Epidemic full story
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WVU in the News: These Newborn Babies Cry for Drugs, Not Milk
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
His body dependent on opioids, he writhes, trembles and cries. He is exhausted but cannot sleep. He vomits, barely eats and has lost weight.Read WVU in the News: These Newborn Babies Cry for Drugs, Not Milk full story
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WVU in the News: Opiates linked to escalation of care in patients with heart failure at high risk for sleep-disordered breathing
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
In-hospital opiate use is associated with an increased likelihood of escalation of care in adults with acute heart failure who are at high-risk for sleep-disordered breathing, a recent study suggests.
