Telemedicine: A Blessing For Some, Inaccessible For Others
Telemedicine: A Blessing For Some, Inaccessible For Others
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Pandemic Fuels Continued Rise In STDs Among Youngest Sexually Active Adolescents
The fallout from the pandemic has run the gamut from an unstable economy to an uptick in social-emotional problems.
Yale Study Combining Opioid Use Disorder Treatment With OB-GYN Care Offers Hope To Pregnant Women Struggling With Addiction
Yale Study Offers Hope To Pregnant Women Struggling with addiction.
State Disciplines Psychiatrist For Improper Prescription Monitoring, Excessive Drinking
Department of Public Health (DPH) investigators determined that Dr. Susannah Tung, a psychiatrist, who runs a private practice while also working for the state Department of Correction (DOC), abused alcohol to excess at least twice; on Oct. 11 2017 and Feb. 20, 2020.
Can Independent Primary Care Doctors Survive Dominance of Hospital Health Systems?
Can Independent primary care doctors survive?
With Demand For Community Health Workers Rising, So Does Need For Sustainable Funding
By Cara Rosner Cloe Poisson Photo. Millie Landock, Lead Community Health Worker at Project Access New Haven, talks to a client on the phone while doing outreach to connect residents to health providers. New Haven…
Physicians’ Biases, Lack Of Knowledge Are Partly To Blame For Health Care Disparities Among People With Disabilities
By Elizabeth Heubeck Jennifer Lortie is accustomed to facing obstacles to health care. The 37-year-old assistive technology specialist for United Cerebral Palsy of Eastern Connecticut has cerebral palsy. As she describes it, her condition, which…
Plan To Expand Child Tax Credit Offers Hope Along With Direct Payments
By Lisa Backus Cloe Poisson Photo. Chinara Johnson with her children, Zavad Morton, 5, Azania Johnson, 8 and Zakai Morton, 5, near her apartment building in downtown New Haven. She would benefit from the expanded Child…
Medical Providers Are Taking Nature Therapy Seriously
By Jenifer Frank Melanie Stengel Photo. Meghan Casey, left, a nursing and public health student at Yale, and Amanda E. DeCew, an advanced practice registered nurse in pediatrics at Fair Haven Community Health Care in New…
State Allows Doctor To Treat Patients Via Telehealth While On Probation
By Lisa Backus The state Medical Examining Board voted to allow a physician whose license has been suspended in several states to practice telemedicine in Connecticut. The board in November suspended the Connecticut license of…
Education, Across All Demographics, Is An Effective Prescription To Combat Diabetes
By Kate Farrish Melanie Stengel Photo. Nydia Rodriguez, 64, with a smoothie that she made for lunch. The Lawrence + Memorial Hospital’s bilingual diabetes education program has helped Rodriguez manage her diabetes. Since Nydia Rodriguez…
Medical Practices Become Another Pandemic Casualty
By Peggy McCarthy After 35 years as an oral surgeon, Dr. Arthur Wilk closed his practice in Clinton following “daunting challenges” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In Darien, Dr. Cecile Windels sold her pediatric practice…
School-Based Health Centers Remain Vital Resource During Pandemic
By Elizabeth Heubeck Yale New Haven Hospital Photo. Nurse practitioner Shannon Knaggs examines a student at the health center at Augusta Lewis Troup School in New Haven. Thirteen-year-old Estrella Roman and her mother have made…
Beyond COVID-19: Waste Testing A Vast Public Health Frontier
By Christine Woodside Steven Geringer/Yale University Photo Annabelle Pan, a research scientist in Jordan Peccia’s lab at Yale University, examines sludge samples. As scientists measure the prevalence of COVID-19 in the sludge flowing from New…
Flu Fighters Combat Vaccination Fears in New Haven
By Sujata Srinivasan Cloe Poisson Photo Sharon Stevens, director of Women of the Village Food Pantry, asks a client picking up food at the Dixwell neighborhood food pantry if they have gotten the flu vaccine…
State To Change ‘Problematic’ Health Care Pay Model
By Christopher Hoffman The state will drop a fee-for-service health care model in favor of an “episode of care” — also known as bundle payments — model. For decades, Connecticut and other states have used…
Connecticut’s Halfhearted Battle: Response To Lead Poisoning Epidemic Lacks Urgency
By Jenifer Frank Melanie Stengel Photo. Fanny Quille with her children Rocio Valladares, 2; Beverly Valladares,7; Angel Valladares, 14; and Anthony Valladares, 7 months, in their Wood Avenue apartment in Bridgeport. Their apartment was inspected…
Army Must Reconsider Applications For Discharge Upgrades Connected To PTSD
By Peggy McCarthy iStock Photo. The Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic represented the plaintiffs in this class action lawsuit. Thousands of Army veterans with mental illnesses will get a second chance for a…
Medical Board Disciplines Two Doctors
By Lisa Backus The state Medical Examining Board agreed Tuesday to discipline two doctors including a physician awaiting sentencing in a federal health care fraud case. Dr. Fawad Hameedi, of New York, has been working…
CT Veterans Suicide Rate Rises; VA Monitoring COVID-19’s Impact
By Peggy McCarthy In Connecticut, 47 veterans died by suicide in 2018, an increase of 10 from the previous year, newly released statistics show. The increase reflected a higher suicide rate than in the overall…