Navigating large hospitals can feel like a mouse circling around in a maze. For patients and visitors, finding the way from Point A to Point B inside a visually-bland medical complex exacerbates an already stressed mental ...
Feb 18, 2022
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West Virginia leads the nation in overdose deaths, but distinguishing intentional overdoses from accidental ones is far from straightforward.
Feb 9, 2022
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The blood-brain barrier keeps foreign substances from entering the brain. That's good when it comes to toxins and germs, but it makes treating tumors in the brain trickier. By shielding the brain from things that would harm ...
Jan 26, 2022
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The earliest wave of COVID-19 spared much of rural America, striking people who live in urban areas with far more frequency. The latest surge was different, however. Nonmetropolitan COVID cases outpaced metropolitan ones. ...
Nov 11, 2021
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Christian nationalists are less likely to get the COVID-19 vaccine while political conservatives express high skepticism toward the coronavirus in general, two new studies published by West Virginia University sociologists ...
Oct 19, 2021
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An opioid overdose isn't a death sentence. In fact, estimates indicate that in the United States, only 4% to 18% of opioid overdoses that are treated in a hospital or pre-hospital setting—such as an ambulance or someone's ...
Aug 30, 2021
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Just like the COVID-19 vaccine protects against contracting the contagious virus, the collective elements of self-efficacy, optimism, hope and resiliency help inoculate employees from the negative effects of working through ...
Aug 24, 2021
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The only approved way to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is through a good 'ol shot in the arm.
Aug 19, 2021
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Employees manning the frontlines of customer service, whether behind the hotel front desk or the restaurant counter, come face-to-face with folks from all walks of life for hours on end.
Aug 9, 2021
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Employees who experience depression are tasked with the decision to disclose their mental health to others at work.
Jul 26, 2021
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