Over 8,500 service workers represented by AFSCME Local 3299 began striking at ten UC campuses and five medical centers yesterday. They have been negotiating for almost a year for a fair contract, but have remained deadlocked for months.

Rick Huston, director of operations at Regions Hospital, stood by a decontamination chamber that would be used to treat mass casualties in a chemical spill. The level of emergency readiness for area medical personnel is “like night and day” compared w

MORGANTOWN (AP) – Medium-sized West Virginia hospitals may perform emergency procedures to clear clogged heart arteries without onsite surgical backup, but Gov. Joe Manchin on Friday asked the state Health Care Authority to rework ambiguous wording on t

Webb County is tentatively set to continue its participation in a payment-agreement program with state and federal agencies that will extend the services provided to indigent health care recipients.The agreement stems from an ongoing negotiation between t

A nationwide network to collect data on blood transfusion and recipient outcomes, called the first of its type in the United States, will include four metro Atlanta hospitals at its launch.