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State public health commissioner and health officer Rahul Gupta to speak at Behavioral Health Grand Rounds
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
West Virginia Commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau for Public Health, and State Health Officer, Rahul Gupta, MD, MPH, FACP, will present at the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry's Grand Rounds on November 2 at 1:00 p.m. in HSC classroom 2118. He will be speaking about the state of mental health in West Virginia. CME and CEU's provided. -
WVU’s Women on Wellness retreat set for Nov. 12 in Greenbrier County
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
The annual Greenbrier County Women on Wellness (WOW) retreat, in partnership with The Greenbrier WOW Community Partnership planning committee and the National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health at West Virginia University (CoE), will be held on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Rainelle Elementary School.Read WVU’s Women on Wellness retreat set for Nov. 12 in Greenbrier County full story
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WVU recruiting six new quantitative neuroscientists
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – WVU’s Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) has launched a national search for six scientists to form the backbone of a new push into quantitative neuroscience – an interdisciplinary approach to studying how the nervous system processes information within the human brain.Read WVU recruiting six new quantitative neuroscientists full story
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WVU Division of Physical Therapy participates in PT Day of Service
Friday, October 28, 2016
WVU School of Medicine Division of Physical Therapy students and faculty members recently took part in the PT Day of Service 2016, helping community members complete yard work activities that they were unable to perform themselves due to reasons such as injuries or surgeries.Read WVU Division of Physical Therapy participates in PT Day of Service full story
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Multi-university team finds possible mechanism to suppress skin cancer metastasis
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
New research, published this week in Laboratory Investigation (Nature Publishing Group) may hold the key a challenging problem in cancer treatment. The investigation was an international effort led by Mary J.C. Hendrix, president of Shepherd University; her laboratory partners at West Virginia University, Richard Seftor, Elisabeth Seftor and Naira Margaryan; and a team of collaborators in Chicago, Boston and Australia. The research team studies a protein long known to be active in embryonic development, called Nodal, that also has a critical role in aggressive human cancer.Read Multi-university team finds possible mechanism to suppress skin cancer metastasis full story