Written by Colleen Shaddox Connecticut is using a shrinking pool of federal funding for HIV/AIDS prevention to focus on getting more people into treatment, particularly men whose sexual activity puts them at risk. New HIV/AIDS…
Written by: Theresa Sullivan Barger The state Medical Examining Board Tuesday accepted a Southbury doctor’s voluntary surrender of his medical license, fined a New Milford Hospital anesthesiologist $5,000 and reprimanded and fined a New London…
by Charles Ornstein (Image: iStockPhoto) ProPublica today is updating our Nursing Home Inspect tool, which now includes details of more than a quarter-million deficiencies identified by government regulators at U.S. nursing homes over the past…
Written by Lisa Chedekel The state will receive $1.6 million as part of a $90 million multi-state settlement with the drug maker GlaxoSmithKline to resolve allegations that the company unlawfully promoted its diabetes drug, Avandia….
Written by Magaly Olivero Proposed changes to the official autism diagnosis are raising concerns among advocates and families with many fearing the new criteria will lead to a loss of services and a sense of…
Hate having to fast at least eight hours before your blood test for cholesterol, lipoproteins and triglycerides? According to the New York Times the latest major studies show there is little difference between test results…
Field records from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, needed to document combat injuries, disability claims and the simple history of both wars, were never kept, were destroyed or simply cannot be found, a ProPublica-Seattle…
Written by Rochelle Sharpe It’s one of the most disturbing trends in American public health: women’s life spans are shrinking in many parts of the U.S., and no one knows why. Women’s longevity took…
Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman today unveiled a new state website created to give military veterans one-stop access to the wide range of veterans’ services and benefits offered by the state…
Copyright CtPetLovers.com 2012 Their patients can’t talk, but it doesn’t mean that Connecticut’s 1,345 licensed veterinarians get a free pass when they are negligent. A review of Connecticut Health Department records by CtPetLovers.com shows that…
Patients are taken to ambulances outside of Bellevue Hospital during an evacuation on Oct. 31, in New York. Bellevue Hospital continued to evacuate its patients on Wednesday after flooding inundated the basement and knocked out…
If you purchased “Wal-Born” – a Walgreens’ brand dietary supplement, the Federal Trade Commission wants you to know that you may be eligible for a refund. National pharmacy chain Walgreens agreed to pay nearly $6…
The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner William M. Rubenstein is encouraging consumers to remember “safety first” as Hurricane Sandy begins its approach up the Eastern Seaboard this weekend. “No matter the weather, New Englanders…
BAD BOYS AND NICE GIRLS Why do nice girls like bad boys? And why do nice boys like bad girls? Let’s define BAD BOY. Rule breaker. (cheating, lying, stealing, breaking laws) Aggressive behavior (fighting, swearing,…
Written by Barbara Nagy WebKazoo Graphic When Ulysses B. Hammond was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his first thought was that he could wait to deal with it. After all, the doctor said it would spread…
Sherwin-Williams and PPG Settle FTC Charges That They Misled Consumers to Believe Their Paints Were Free of Potentially Harmful Volatile Organic Compounds Two of the nation’s leading paint companies, The Sherwin-Williams Company and PPG Architectural…
While Halloween is celebrated by children of all ages as being delightfully scary, concerned parents often confront a host of unseen dangers and grim warnings in the days and weeks leading up to this night,…
Evidence is mounting that annual medical checkups for healthy adults does not produce better health results. Instead, new research shows that focusing on special tests for colon and breast cancers would do less damage and…
Written by Theresa Sullivan Barger After twice sending the case back to a review panel for further sanctions, the state Medical Examining Board Tuesday accepted a memorandum of decision that imposes probation on a Watertown…
Written by Lisa Chedekel When the state Department of Veterans’ Affairs recently advertised a job opening for a veterans’ service officer, 73 veterans applied, many of them younger men and women who had served in…