Come next month’s 2020 legislative session, West Virginians may see their lawmakers voting on a rare piece of legislation — one that would improve drinking water standards statewide.

A public comment period is opening for Kanawha County residents to express thoughts and concerns regarding a vaping ordinance passed by the Kanawha Charleston Health Department’s Board of Directors during a special meeting Thursday.

On Sunday morning, a group of West Virginians will depart from Morgantown en route to Niagara Falls, Canada, but they aren’t going to see the sights. Instead, they are going in search of affordable insulin.

In coming weeks, the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department’s board is expected to pass an ordinance limiting vaping in public places, bringing its policies in line with 34 other counties that already regulate electronic smoking devices to the same standards as cigarettes.

HUNTINGTON — Despite rates declining nationally, the obesity rate among children ages 2 to 4 participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in West Virginia increased from 14.4% in 2010 to 16.6% in 2016, according to the newest data published this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Janet Briscoe, director of epidemiology at the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department, announced this week that she will be leaving the department to work at Charleston Area Medical Center in infection prevention.

At West Virginia Health Right, new mothers with substance abuse problems have a new way to get themselves and their babies healthy.

HUNTINGTON — Imagine you are 60 years old. You’ve worked your whole life and are preparing for something every working person looks forward to — retirement.

Two new cases of HIV were diagnosed in Kanawha County since the last meeting of the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department’s HIV Task Force in October, KCHD director Dr. Sherri Young announced Wednesday.

West Virginia holds the nation’s largest share of children who will face devastating, lifelong consequences linked to the opioid crisis, new data shows.

A special master in a landmark national opioid trial has ordered the release of previously secret reports that detail “suspicious” orders of powerful painkillers placed by pharmacies and purchased from giant drug suppliers.

MORGANTOWN — On Saturday, Robert Parsons, a 61-year-old man from Chesapeake, Ohio, got a new lease on life when surgeons at the West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute and the WVU Medicine Transplant Alliance performed West Virginia’s first heart transplant.

CUMBERLAND, Md. — Last year, Al Moore was gulping down a dozen medications to cope with physical pain and sometimes crippling post-traumatic stress disorder that he developed during 30 years in the Marine Corps.