North Central West Virginia American Association of Critical Care Nurses Meeting

Event Location: MICU conference room, J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital

The North Central West Virginia American Association of Critical Care Nurses (NCWV.AACN) will meet Jan. 22 at 8 a.m. in the MICU conference room.

The speaker is Chris Cook, MD, who is the program director of the thoracic surgery residency program.

For more information, see this flyer.

WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute restores quality of life for essential tremor patient

Tim Casey, 70, of Charleston, has struggled for 20 years with essential tremor (ET), which caused him to lose control over movement in his hands, drastically reducing his quality of life. But his life fundamentally improved after he became the 100th recipient of the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute’s (RNI) high-intensity focused ultrasound treatment.

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