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CLINIC: Enslow Park Presbyterian Church and Cabell-Huntington Health Department host a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination clinic for ages 16 and older from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 18, in the church parking lot. Appointments are not necessary for the first or second Moderna or Pfizer vaccines. Call 304-523-9920.
LISTED: Isaac Perry, junior ministry and leadership major from Kenova, was among approximately 665 students at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, to be named to the spring 2021 presidentâs list. To be eligible for this list, students must earn a 3.75 or higher grade point average for the semester.
PROGRAM: Heritage Farm Museum and Village offers two more fun-themed âWe Learn Wednesdaysâ from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 19 and 26. Museums, wagon rides, animal encounters, tree trek and nature center, discovery zone playground and Hands On Activity Barn are open. Tickets are $15.
CHARLESTON – The program director for Huntington s Quick Response Team and Cabell EMS employee testified during the first federal trial against the “Big Three” opioid distributors over their role in the drug crisis that Cabell County does have data tying prescription drug use to illegal drug use, and to an overwhelming impact of the drug crisis on the community and first responders.
Meanwhile, the drug distributors – McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health – sought to put the focus on the role of prescribers, as well as health officials decision not to go after distributors earlier.
The City of Huntington and Cabell County sued the distributors in 2017 over their role in the overdose crisis, after more than 80 million doses of the drugs were sent to the area in an eight-year period.
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The trial of the âBig Threeâ drug companies accused of fueling an opioid drug epidemic in Cabell County and the city of Huntington started Monday at the Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse in Charleston.
Courtesy of the West Virginia Humanities Council
HUNTINGTON â Nearly 80 students received their degrees Friday during the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicineâs 41st annual graduation and investiture ceremony at Mountain Health Arena in Huntington.
The ceremony included the awarding of 74 Doctor of Medicine degrees as well as four Doctor of Philosophy degrees in biomedical research, the schoolâs first combined Doctor of Medicine-Doctor of Philosophy degree, and recognition of the School of Medicine honorary alumnus.
Every member of the class matched to residency training programs.
C. Douglas Phillips, M.D., a 1984 alumnus and professor of radiology and director of head and neck imaging at Weill Cornell Medicine, delivered the keynote address to the Class of 2021. Additional comments were given by class President David Bartlett.
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