By Lisa Backus Recommend Tweet Email Print More Black and Hispanic women make up about 25% of the state’s female population but represent about 53% of domestic violence arrest cases for adult females in 2020,…
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By Kate Farrish RECOMMEND TWEET EMAIL PRINT MORE With federal and state eviction moratoriums ending soon, a team of researchers from Yale University and two other universities has found an apparent link between landlord-related forced housing moves…
The state Medical Examining Board voted Tuesday to discipline two physicians with fines and ordered a Newington woman to stop providing injections for a fee without a medical license.
By Peggy McCarthy RECOMMENDTWEET EMAILPRINTMORE Army veteran Carlos Correa dreams of starting a business growing lettuce and tomatoes in greenhouses. But the traumatic injuries he suffered as a result of serving in Afghanistan prevent him from working….
The fallout from the pandemic has run the gamut from an unstable economy to an uptick in social-emotional problems.
Yale Study Offers Hope To Pregnant Women Struggling with addiction.
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.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…