Feb 20 Health West Virginia Coal Miners Rally For Black Lung Legislation Miners and advocates rallied Wednesday at the West Virginia Capitol in support of a series of bills aimed at preventing and treating severe black lung disease. Five bills introduced by lawmakers would make it easier to make qualify for state benefits and provide benefits to miners who have early-stage black lung. The bills come at […] By Brittany Patterson Feb 20 Health West Virginia Coal Miners Rally For Black Lung Legislation Brittany Patterson
Feb 15 Health As Opioid Crisis Affects A New Generation, Experts Study Long-Term Effects Of Prenatal Exposure Sue Meeks has worked with children for years as a registered nurse. Meeks manages the family navigator program at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ohio. Several years ago, she started noticing three and four-year-olds coming into the program with certain distinctive behaviors. “Children that appear to be neurologically very overstimulated,” she […] By Aaron Payne Feb 15 Health As Opioid Crisis Affects A New Generation, Experts Study Long-Term Effects Of Prenatal Exposure Aaron Payne
Feb 14 Health EPA To Limit PFAS Chemical Contaminants Found In Some Ohio Valley Water Systems The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will move forward with a series of actions to regulate toxic fluorinated chemicals, including proposing drinking water limits by the end of this year. But environment and public health advocates say that timeline is unacceptably slow given the health risks and extent of contamination. In its long-awaited […] By Brittany Patterson Feb 14 Health EPA To Limit PFAS Chemical Contaminants Found In Some Ohio Valley Water Systems Brittany Patterson
Feb 11 Health Health Experts Say Poor Practice By Company Likely Source Of Vaccination Infections Infectious disease experts say poor practices in vaccine delivery are the likely cause of infections reported by some people who received vaccine shots at their places of employment in the Ohio Valley. Kentucky health officials are investigating a link between the infections and a private Kentucky company hired to deliver vaccinations in the workplace. Location […] By Mary Meehan Feb 11 Health Health Experts Say Poor Practice By Company Likely Source Of Vaccination Infections Mary Meehan
Jan 28 Health Black Lung Clinics Call For Action But Top Regulator Plans No New Measures In the wake of an NPR and PBS Frontline investigation into the surge in cases of black lung disease, a coalition of black lung clinics is calling for action to better protect coal miners from dust exposure. NPR reports that more than 2,300 miners in central Appalachia are sick with the most serious form of […] By Jeff Young Jan 28 Health Black Lung Clinics Call For Action But Top Regulator Plans No New Measures Jeff Young
Jan 25 Health Dairy Dilemma: Food Shelters Awash In Surplus Milk They Can’t Afford To Store Cyndi Kirkhart has some 26,000 square feet of warehouse space at the Facing Hunger Food Bank in Huntington, West Virginia, where she is executive director. That sounds like a lot of space. But very little of it is cooler space. “This is the only cooler we have,” Kirkhart said, stepping into a walk-in cooler the […] By Glynis Board Jan 25 Health Dairy Dilemma: Food Shelters Awash In Surplus Milk They Can’t Afford To Store Glynis Board
Jan 23 Health Food Aid A Concern As Government Shutdown Affects SNAP Payments The partial shutdown of the federal government is affecting families depending on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program program, or SNAP. Benefits for February have come early as a temporary fix to avoid anticipated disruptions should the shutdown drag into another month. But the leader of God’s Pantry Food Bank in Lexington, Kentucky, said the […] By Mary Meehan Jan 23 Health Food Aid A Concern As Government Shutdown Affects SNAP Payments Mary Meehan
Jan 18 Health Still Fighting: These Widows’ Stories Show Larger Effects of Black Lung Epidemic Nancy and Rich Potter had the kind of marriage that made other couples jealous. He’d take her on spontaneous trips. She’d wear her Daisy Dukes just for him. Joyce Birman said her late husband, George, made a terrible first impression. It was his apology for it that made her fall for him, hard. Vickie Salyers’ […] By Sydney Boles Jan 18 Health Still Fighting: These Widows’ Stories Show Larger Effects of Black Lung Epidemic Sydney Boles
Jan 11 Health The Vexing Vape: Officials Say Small Vaping Device Juul A Major Health Risk To Youth A slender, black, rectangle, the Juul fits easily in the palm of your hand. You don’t light it, you trigger it with a click of a finger. The mist that is exhaled is so fine it’s hard to see. The nicotine is delivered via a pod the size of a AAA battery, with each pod […] By Mary Meehan Jan 11 Health The Vexing Vape: Officials Say Small Vaping Device Juul A Major Health Risk To Youth Mary Meehan