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A new service available at University Healthcare Berkeley Medical Center offers longtime smokers the opportunity to undergo a lung screening that research shows can help detect cancer earlier. Low dose CT lung screenings for lung cancer will be offered at a discounted rate beginning in August. The first screening clinic is scheduled for Saturday, August…
The Marshall University Forensic Science Graduate Program once again is ranked number one in the country for its students receiving the highest overall scores on the Forensic Science Assessment Test, a qualifying test offered each year by the American Board of Criminalistics. In addition, a Marshall student received the highest test score from among 179…
BlaineTurner Advertising (BTA), a full-service marketing and public relations agency in Morgantown, W.Va., was recently honored with a silver Aster Award for a United Hospital Center (UHC) video production titled “Urology Patients.” UHC is located in Bridgeport, W.Va. The Aster Awards Program is an elite competition recognizing the nation’s most talented healthcare marketing professionals for…
Some West Virginia University (WVU) graduate students don’t need to cross the seas or even the state line to land a high-quality internship. For those in the Master of Science in Human Resources and Industrial Relations program in the College of Business and Economics, real world experience can be found a half-mile down the road. The…
The annual Health Science & Technology Academy (HSTA) Summer Institute conducted by Marshall University will take place July 14-19 on MU’s Huntington campus. This is the 20th year of summer institutes for HSTA, which was started in 1994 with 45 students from two counties. It now averages around 800 students from 26 counties throughout the…
Seven West Virginia University faculty members have been awarded research grants in the University’s first year of participation in the Big XII Faculty Fellowship Program. The program, which is only open to faculty members at institutions in the Big XII Athletic Conference, is intended to “stimulate scholarly initiatives through creation of an academic community” across…