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.

HUNTINGTON — The county health department was staying open late just for them, so after dinner, a dozen men shuffled out of the Lifehouse drug rehabilitation shelter where they were living and climbed into a battered white van.

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.

WILLIAMSON — Williamson Memorial Hospital (WMH) announced via press release late Thursday afternoon the layoff of 35 employees and the closure of Williamson Family Care and Williamson Medical Specialties clinics. 

West Virginia education officials are sounding alarm bells as 120,000 households could lose automatic eligibility for free school meals. The change could come as part of a Trump administration proposal to limit access to food stamps.

A Child Protective Services worker has been appointed to become West Virginia’s first foster care ombudsman, the Department of Health and Human Resources announced Monday.

HUNTINGTON — An attorney representing Cabell County and 700 others in a federal opioid lawsuit says he plans to seek $500 million from three drug firms for the county’s recovery efforts from the opioid epidemic and a plan has been created on how the money generally would be spent.