“Four LabXpress facilities have been ordered closed and the owners fined for operating without a state-issued license,” according to Connecticut Health I-Team. Operations in New Britain, Manchester, Wethersfield and West Hartford were ordered closed by…
Acting Insurance Commissioner Barbara C. Spear today announced that state regulators have fined two Wisconsin-based companies nearly $400,000 for a series of violations uncovered during follow-up examinations of business practices related to certain individual and…
TIGER MOM BOOK Battle Hymn of the Tiger Moms is a new book written by Amy Chua, a Chinese-American law professor from Yale. This book has caused much controversy because of her harsh parenting methods….
by Robin Fields ProPublica, Dec. 28, 2010, 9:36 a.m. Valerie Prenkert is haunted each time she thinks of the small Northern California clinic where her mother got dialysis. At the start of a treatment on…
An antelope passes by a natural gas drilling rig south of Pinedale, Wyo. (Douglas C. Pizac/AP file photo) by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Jan. 25, 2011, 8:34 a.m. The United States is poised to bet its…
THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL Dear Doctor Kathleen, I am experiencing a lot of physical pain as a result of a terrible car accident. My fear is that I’m never going to…
by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Jan. 19, 2011, 2:53 p.m. UC Denver (wools/Flickr) The University of Colorado Denver and its affiliated teaching hospitals have launched an overhaul of conflict of interest policies after…
Have you ever visited a facility where seniors gather for a meal and observed the little cases many people carry with rainbow assortments of pills inside? I have, and I have even noticed at times…
The day after the tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona, I was shocked when I heard the reactions from many politicians and the media. Almost all were blaming each other, taking responsibility and motivation off of…
by Marian Wang ProPublica, Jan. 13, 2011, 3:14 p.m. Photo by Andrew Magill [1] We’ve reported extensively on the ties between pharmaceutical companies and the physicians they fund to speak, consult and do research [2]….
A Massachusetts man was charged with manslaughter in Connecticut last week, in what is being referred to as the assisted suicide, or mercy killing, of his Alzheimer’s afflicted father. Remarkably, the commentary sections of the…
The Better Business Bureau really knows how to lose credibility. For two years the Connecticut BBB chapter had given Aiello Plumbing of Windsor Locks, Ct., an A rating despite numerous complaints to the BBB as…
WHO AM I? DEAR DOCTOR KATHLEEN, No matter how many people tell me that I am smart and lovable and kind, I feel stupid and unlikable and undeserving of happiness. WHY? Please explain…
One should not jump to conclusions on why a newspaper decides to publish or not publish a particular story. However, some of you might find it interesting that after all that happened with Aiello Plumbing…
One of the largest and most expensive plumbing and cooling companies in Connecticut has agreed to pay $35,000 in fines to avoid legal action following consumer complaints. Over the past 10 years 47 consumers had…
DEAR DOCTOR KATHLEEN, My wife of 14 years just announced that she wants a divorce! I am so shocked! She told me calmly, as if she was asking me to go to the store, instead…