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HealthMay 23, 2025

Groups sue over West Virginia governor's order on religious exemptions for school vaccines

Two groups have filed a lawsuit over an executive order by West Virginia's governor granting religious exemptions from required school vaccinations

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HealthMay 14, 2025

Judge orders restoration of jobs in health program for West Virginia coal miners

A judge has ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs in a unit of a small U.S. health agency

HealthMar 24, 2025

One state jumps into the fray over vaccine exemptions

One of Republican Patrick Morrisey’s first moves as West Virginia governor was to issue an executive order allowing families to apply for religious exemptions to mandated childhood vaccinations

HealthFeb 28, 2025

A West Virginia judge orders monitor for foster kids in hotels as another dismisses a federal suit

A West Virginia judge ordered that a monitor be put in place to oversee state child protective services placements in hotels and camps after a 12-year-old boy in state care attempted suicide in a hotel room

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HealthFeb 21, 2025

West Virginia Senate OKs bill allowing for religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions

West Virginia senators have voted to dismantle one of the nation’s strictest school vaccination policies

HealthFeb 4, 2025

West Virginia's Tucker DeVries will miss rest of season with an upper-body injury

West Virginia's Tucker DeVries will have surgery for an upper-body injury and miss the rest of the season

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HealthJan 14, 2025

West Virginia governor axes DEI and enacts vaccine exemptions on first full day in office

Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey has issued a slew of aggressive executive orders on his first day as West Virginia’s chief executive

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HealthJan 8, 2025

West Virginia care facility staff members charged in death of patient left in scalding hot bathtub

Two staff members at a northern West Virginia long-term care facility have been charged in the death of a patient who was left in a scalding hot bathtub a year ago

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HealthJan 2, 2025

West Virginia patients are left in limbo over changing insurance coverage of obesity medications

While West Virginia's employee health insurance program covers drugs like Ozempic for people with type 2 diabetes, officials decided to indefinitely pause covering their use for weight loss patients because of the cost