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  • Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, 2019 Zimmermann Visiting Professor

    Friday, July 5, 2019

    The Department of Surgery invites you to attend Surgery Grand Rounds and the 2019 Bernard Zimmermann, MD Lectureship with Visiting Professor John A. Weigelt, MD, DVM, Professor of Surgery, Sanford Medical Center and University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD

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  • WVU in the News: The US opioid epidemic is driving a spike in infectious diseases

    Monday, July 1, 2019

    Opioid addiction kills tens of thousands of people every year in the United States and the trend shows no signs of slowing. Now, public-health officials are worried about a surge in bacterial and viral infections linked to opioid abuse that threatens to compound the crisis.

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  • Martin to participate in NIOSH forum addressing worker opioid use disorders

    Monday, July 1, 2019

    This month, Professor Chris Martin, MD, will represent WVU and the School of Public Health at a nationwide forum to address research gaps related to use of opioids after workplace injury and exposures.

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  • WVU in the News: How judges added to the grim toll of opioids

    Monday, July 1, 2019

    For years, they sealed evidence about the risks as the body count mounted. And as a Reuters analysis found, it’s only one of many big product-liability cases in which judges have countenanced a lethal and often unlawful secrecy.

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  • WVU in the News: HIV Is Spreading in West Virginia. The Solution Is in Short Supply.

    Monday, July 1, 2019

    HIV cases are surging in Huntington, West Virginia, a city already ravaged by the opioid epidemic. Experts worry that the virus could proliferate farther still—particularly since Charleston, the state capital an hour away, shut down its syringe exchange last year. The move restricted access not only to clean needles but to HIV testing as well.

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