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WVU researcher tailors first-responder app to improve stroke outcomes
Monday, August 5, 2019
Doctors have about three hours to administer the most effective treatment for the most common type of stroke. If they miss that window, recovery becomes questionable, and survival rates plummet.Read WVU researcher tailors first-responder app to improve stroke outcomes full story
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WVU plans rural psychiatry residency training to help patients with limited access to care in North Central W.Va.
Friday, August 2, 2019
West Virginia University will expand its capacity for treating psychiatric patients in North Central West Virginia by establishing a rural residency program in counties identified as Health Professional Shortage Areas, or HPSAs. -
Nurkiewicz named Physiology and Pharmacology chair
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Timothy Nurkiewicz, Ph.D., has been named chair of the WVU School of Medicine’s Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.Read Nurkiewicz named Physiology and Pharmacology chair full story
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WVU in the News: Advancing toward Treatments for Stroke, Diabetes, Dementia
Friday, July 26, 2019
Medications attach to the proteins in our bodies the way spacecrafts dock into the International Space Station. Describing that process in detail can reveal a lot about how the medications work — and what form new medications should take. Using extreme-brightness x-rays from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory researchers from West Virginia University (WVU) have mapped the crystal structure of a protein that resides in our cells and determined — for the first time — how a drug latches onto it.Read WVU in the News: Advancing toward Treatments for Stroke, Diabetes, Dementia full story
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WVU researchers use telehealth to head off hospitalizations and ER visits
Thursday, July 25, 2019
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rural Americans are more likely than their urban counterparts to die prematurely from the five most common killers: heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease and stroke. Telehealth—the use of technology to provide healthcare remotely—is an emerging way to combat these trends. And it’s growing in popularity.Read WVU researchers use telehealth to head off hospitalizations and ER visits full story
