Health
CT program to give thousands of dollars to teens born into poverty gets started
Will the promise of proceeds from a baby bond when the child reaches 18 make...
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A CT woman unapologetically uses her family’s incredibly famous name. It’s never for herself.
The Connecticut woman experienced angst growing up knowing she was their granddaughter but not being...
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A CT man’s chest pain was an aortic aneurysm. His family says misdiagnosis led to his death.
A Connecticut man went to the hospital with chest pain. He later died of what...
Could better inhalers help patients, and the planet?
Patients in the United States are prescribed roughly 144 million of what doctors call metered-dose inhalers each...
There’s a new highly transmissible COVID-19 variant. Could FLiRT lead to a summer uptick?
The two FLiRT subvariants combined comprised an estimated 35% of coronavirus infections nationally for the two-week period...
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New device could identify which babies will struggle with breastfeeding
A team at UC San Diego rigged up a "non-nutritive suckling system" by connecting a...
Two CT senior living facilities say they will combine. Together they serve 6,500 people.
The agreement is subject to regulatory approvals and that of the organizations’ governing bodies.
Crisis in Connecticut: 18 men over age 60 have died by suicide with guns this year
In Connecticut, help can be sought by calling the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988....
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Breakthrough therapies are saving lives. Can we afford them?
This is the future of medicine, experts agree. But the cost of this new class...
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Mental Health Awareness Month: How to talk to kids when violent events happen
When caregivers can't shield kids from incidents of extreme violence around the world or near...