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Washington & Jefferson College senior Alondra Martinez Osorno was one of just 15 students in the nation who was named to The National Institutes of Health’s Undergraduate Scholarship Program for 2020.The program pays a significant portion of her undergraduate tuition and she will ...

Monongahela Valley Hospital’s Orthopedic Institute is partnering with the orthopedic surgeons with The Orthopedic Group to now offer Zimmer Biomet’s ROSA Knee System, which brings together robotic technology with industry-leading knee implants to help surgeons personalize surgical ...

84 Lumber is going pink in honor of October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month for the fifth year in a row.Along with the launch of a fundraising and awareness campaign, the company said Monday in a news release it would donate 84 mammograms, totaling $34,884, to local women in partnership with ...

Monongahela Valley Hospital’s medical Staff elected new officers Sept. 21. The leaders include president John A. Holets, M.D.; vice president Ari E. Pressman, M.D.; and secretary/treasurer Arshad M. Bachelani, M.D.L. Douglas Pepper, M.D. is the immediate past president.For the past four ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic started and Western Pennsylvania went into lockdown, many doctor’s offices were closed, appointments were canceled and patients were forced to delay preventive care.Nationwide, colonoscopy numbers plummeted by 88% in mid-April and were still a third lower than ...

Food Box program feeding needs nationwide

As if operating a specialty food store and a farm weren’t time intensive enough ... Alisa-Fava Fasnacht packs and oversees packing of provisions for the food insecure.Thousands of boxes, sometimes in a rush.“We built more than 6,000 boxes over the past two weeks,” she said Tuesday, a tad ...