West Virginia Bureau for Public Health
Recent News About West Virginia Bureau for Public Health
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Attorneys seek to have more opioid-addicted infants added to state MLP case
CHARLESTON – Attorneys representing children born addicted to opioids have filed a motion seeking to reopen and place certain infants on the same active docket as others. -
Witness in W.Va. opioid trial says DEA provided little guidance to defendants
CHARLESTON – Defense attorneys in the West Virginia opioid trial sought to portray the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency as providing no guidance on how drug-producing companies could comply with regulations. -
Ruling allows more West Virginia-based NAS claims to be filed
CHARLESTON – A New York bankruptcy court order is allowing more than 270 additional claims to be filed on behalf of West Virginia children suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. -
Judge files order requiring DHHR to provide more NAS information to attorneys
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha Circuit Court judge has filed an order to provide more information to attorneys about a registry of about 4,000 West Virginia children suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. -
Judge files order requiring DHHR to provide some NAS info to attorneys
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha Circuit Court judge has filed an order requiring the state Department of Health and Human Resources to provide information to attorneys about a registry of about 4,000 West Virginia children suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. -
Judge grants motion requiring state DHHR to provide info about babies born addicted to opioids
CHARLESTON – Attorneys were granted a motion requiring the state Department of Health and Human Resources to provide information about a registry of about 4,000 West Virginia children suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. -
Attorneys want DHHR to turn over information about babies born addicted to opioids
CHARLESTON – Attorneys want the state Department of Health and Human Resources to provide information about a registry of about 4,000 West Virginia children suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. -
Northern Panhandle doctor hit with another hepatitis lawsuit
MOUNDSVILLE – A northern Panhandle physician has been named in another hepatitis lawsuit. -
Three former patients sue physician, who sues WVDHHR
MOUNDSVILLE – Three former patients are suing a physician who, in turn, is suing the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. In the three lawsuits filed by former patients, Dr. Roland F. -
Woman says DHHR fired her over testimony
CHARLESTON – A former official for the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health has filed a lawsuit in state court claiming she was fired for her testimony to legislators in June about the impact of the Freedom Industries chemical leak. -
Manchin and Tomblin Announce Additional Scientific Testing and Monitoring of Chemicals Spilled in Kanawha Valley
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin and Governor Earl Ray Tomblin announced the coordination between federal and state agencies to conduct additional scientific testing of the chemicals spilled from the Freedom Industries plant on January 9, 2014. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Toxicology Program, and NIH’s National Institute -
OUR VIEW: Simonton says – just what the lawyers want to him to say
“Frankly, the formaldehyde has me, personally, a little freaked out,” Simonton says. “What we know scares us, and we know there’s a lot more we don’t know. -
Formaldehyde-talking professor working for law firm
CHARLESTON – A Marshall University professor who told state lawmakers this week that trace amounts of formaldehyde in Charleston’s water supply likely is connected to the recent chemical spill received his funding from a law firm that already has filed lawsuits related to the spill.