Mar 10 Health Ohio Valley Colleges And Universities Respond To Coronavirus Threat College administrators around the region are weighing their options as the novel coronavirus pandemic makes the lectures, events and dormitories of campus life potential means of transmission of the highly infectious virus. Several schools are opting for distance learning and suspending in-person classes. The Ohio Valley ReSource and its partner stations will update this story […] By Jeff Young Mar 10 Health Ohio Valley Colleges And Universities Respond To Coronavirus Threat Jeff Young
Mar 1 Health Clean Water Wanted: Contaminated Wells And The Legacy Of Fossil Fuel Extraction “You seen that one with the tombstone up there?” seven-year-old Timothy Easterling asks, looking toward the grass just uphill from his home. “That’s my papaw.” Timothy’s grandfather Chet Blankenship died in 2016, at age 69. Blankenship lived on land he and his family have long owned at the end of a road atop Bradshaw Mountain […] By Benny Becker Mar 1 Health Clean Water Wanted: Contaminated Wells And The Legacy Of Fossil Fuel Extraction Benny Becker
Feb 26 Health “Lax Oversight” Threatens Health Fund for Miners With Black Lung, Watchdog Finds Just three bankruptcies of American coal companies have added more than $800 million in costs to a federal government program that funds health care for disabled coal miners, the Government Accountability said in a report released Wednesday. The report comes after a 2018 analysis by the same agency which found the Black Lung Disability Trust […] By Sydney Boles Feb 26 Health “Lax Oversight” Threatens Health Fund for Miners With Black Lung, Watchdog Finds Sydney Boles
Feb 21 Health Black Lung Benefits Drop For Kentucky Coal Miners After Controversial Law Change Lynn Estel Stanley was the kind of coal mine foreman who wanted to know if there was a safety problem, and would always be the one to go fix it himself. He was also the kind of miner who refused to slow down, even when his men told him he was overexerting himself. But when […] By Sydney Boles Feb 21 Health Black Lung Benefits Drop For Kentucky Coal Miners After Controversial Law Change Sydney Boles
Feb 7 Health Reports Show Challenges Remain In Addiction Treatment Medication Access Center for Disease Control and Prevention data indicate opioid overdose deaths in the Ohio Valley declined in 2018, the first time in nearly a decade. Researchers say this is cause for optimism. But two new studies warn that access to medication assisted treatment, or MAT, for people with opioid use disorders continues to be a […] By Aaron Payne Feb 7 Health Reports Show Challenges Remain In Addiction Treatment Medication Access Aaron Payne
Feb 6 Health Survey: Americans Agree Health Care System Needs Fixing Americans are divided on lots of issues. But a new national survey finds that people across the political spectrum agree on at least one thing: Our health care system needs fixing. The “Hidden Common Ground” survey from Public Agenda, USA Today and Ipsos found that 92 percent of Americans say changes are needed. And a […] By Christine Herman Feb 6 Health Survey: Americans Agree Health Care System Needs Fixing Christine Herman
Feb 5 Health Scientists, Mine Safety Officials Discuss Black Lung Protections Officials with the Mine Safety and Health Administration met for the first time with miners’ health researchers Wednesday in a new partnership designed to discuss ways to better protect coal miners from the dust that causes black lung disease. In future meetings, representatives from the two agencies will discuss recommendations made by the National Academy […] By Sydney Boles Feb 5 Health Scientists, Mine Safety Officials Discuss Black Lung Protections Sydney Boles
Jan 30 Health Report Finds Many Ohio Valley Communities At Deep Disadvantage in Health, Wealth A new report finds the Ohio Valley has some of the most disadvantaged communities in the country. The study comes from the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions, an initiative to eliminate or alleviate poverty through action-based research. The “Index of Deep Disadvantage” combines measures of income, health outcomes, and social mobility, or the factors affecting […] By Becca Schimmel Jan 30 Health Report Finds Many Ohio Valley Communities At Deep Disadvantage in Health, Wealth Becca Schimmel
Jan 9 Health Rural Americans Increasingly Concerned About Opioid Addiction, Study Finds Researchers at Harvard University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that rural Americans identified drug addiction and economic concerns as the most serious problems facing their communities. The open-ended survey of 2700 rural adults aimed to identify the major concerns of rural voters, and found that 25 percent of rural Americans said drug addiction was […] By Sydney Boles Jan 9 Health Rural Americans Increasingly Concerned About Opioid Addiction, Study Finds Sydney Boles