West Virginia Public Broadcasting

1 day ago | wvpublic.org | Curtis Tate

A federal judge in Charleston has blocked President Donald Trump’s attempts to cut a coal worker health monitoring program focused on an black lung disease. U.S. District Judge Irene Berger issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday against the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS had issued termination notices to the staff of the Coal Worker Health Surveillance Program based in Morgantown and placed them on administrative leave.

5 days ago | wvpublic.org | Eric Douglas

Every professional sports program has a concussion protocol that dictates when a player can return to the roster. One of the two doctors who developed the program is from the Wheeling area. And that is just one of his many accomplishments. This weekend, UPMC Presbyterian Hospital neurosurgeon Dr. Joe Maroon is receiving an Ellis Island Medal of Honor. The ceremony will be held in the same great hall that both sets of his grandparents walked through when they came to America from Poland and Lebanon.

6 days ago | wvpublic.org | Curtis Tate

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito says the Trump administration’s defense of staff cuts affecting coal miner health is insufficient. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defended its staff cuts to a coal miner health monitoring program in federal court on Wednesday. The government’s lawyer said agency functions would be reorganized and programs continued. Attorneys for a Kanawha County coal miner said there was no evidence to support that.

1 week ago | wvpublic.org | Curtis Tate

Harry Wiley sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. On Wednesday, his attorneys sought a preliminary injunction from Judge Irene Berger. If she grants it, HHS would have to bring back a team that monitors coal miners for black lung disease. HHS put those workers on administrative leave last month and gave them termination notices.

1 week ago | wvpublic.org | Emily Rice

Through May 11, the American Lung Association’s (ALA) annual Lung Cancer Action Week, advocates wear turquoise and illuminate buildings and landmarks across the U.S. using the color to bring awareness and break the stigma around lung cancer. “The main focus of Lung Cancer Action Week and Turquoise Takeover is that lung cancer is a disease that can affect anyone and no one deserves it,” said the ALA’s Health Promotion Specialist, Laura Williams.