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DeStefano Blasts Wal-Mart

by Paul Bass | May 31, 2006 4:34 pm | Comments (3)

John DeStefano joined Wal-Mart worker Rosa Soto across the street—OK, way across the street—from the retail giant Wednesday to demand that it offer its workers better health care instead of sticking Connecticut with an annual $5.6 million bill.

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“These Drugs Are Not Chocolate Ice Cream”

by Melissa Bailey | May 30, 2006 2:37 pm | Comments (1)

A Yale study that gave powerful antipsychotic drugs to adolescents failed to produce the meaningful results it sought. It did produce criticism over how the study’s controversial approach puts children at risk, and whether that risk is justified.

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What DeJesus Would Do

by Tess Wheelwright | May 29, 2006 3:17 pm | Comments (1)

“I’m Hispanic and you’re white. Let’s assume that I’m more highly educated than you, and have more money. All the same: If we went in with toothaches, you’d get the better pain medication. If we’re men with testicular cancer, I’m the one who’s going to have the testicle removed.” Read on for thoughts from Jeannette DeJesus, launcher of a new Latino health policy institute, on why at the doctor’s, race matters.

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The Dentist Comes To The Kids

by Melissa Bailey | May 24, 2006 10:27 am | Comments (0)

“She sparkled them!” showed off one proud Dwight School kindergartener, Kayla Jones (pictured at left), after slipping out of class to visit to the St. Raphael’s Mobile Dental Van. The van visits 15 city schools, serving kids who would otherwise have a tough time finding a dentist — mostly kids on HUSKY A.

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CTV Highlights Latino Health Care Haven

by Melinda Tuhus | May 19, 2006 9:21 am | Comments (0)

Iris Montalvo is a front-line worker at a health care refuge for immigrants, Latinos, and Fair Haveners in general. She and two of her fellow wonder workers gave a verbal tour of their work Thursday night on CTV.

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Lamont Defends “Band-Aid” Universal Approach

by Allan Appel | May 15, 2006 10:41 am | Comments (1)

On Mother’s Day, at least, health care replaced the Iraq War as the top issue at a Ned Lamont for Senate campaign stop, as the surging upstart candidate fielded tough questions about how to insure everybody.

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How You Can Help: Honor Your Mama

by Tess Wheelwright | May 12, 2006 5:37 pm | Comments (0)

Balancing soup kitchen volunteer work with raising three boys got a little easier when Lashonda Perry (pictured with her sons) joined the New Haven Healthy Start program. Healthy Start helps her get her kids from home in Farnam Courts public housing to their doctor in West Haven on a regular basis — and helps lots more families like hers live together more healthfully. Perry says it’s so “good to know there are people out there to help you” that now she helps Healthy Start fundraise. They need it more than ever: government funding this year got massively cut. Honor your mama this mother’s day with a donation to a special new effort to get distanced dads back in their kids’ lives, and help keep Healthy Start in the business of nurturing and empowering. Email Natasha Ray, the philanthropic officer and Healthy Start consortia coordinator, at nray@cfgnh.org or call her at 203.777.2386 x 242 to donate, ask questions, and say Happy Mother’s Day.

A Half Century of Catching Babies

by Melinda Tuhus | May 11, 2006 1:12 pm | Comments (1)

There were moms, babies and midwives galore at the 50th birthday bash for Yale School of Nursing’s midwifery program on Wednesday afternoon. And there were bulldog pins for this year’s 19 graduates (pictured) — not to remind them of Yale’s mascot, but to illustrate how tenacious midwives must be to claim their place in the medical establishment.

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Keeping Black Babies Alive, The Sequel

by Melinda Tuhus | May 2, 2006 5:05 pm | Comments (1)

A lot fewer black babies are dying in New Haven than were dying 20 years ago. But too many still die, and they’re still more likely than white babies to die. So health providers in town came together to discuss new approaches, encouraged by charismatic keynote speaker Michael Lu (pictured).

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Clinics Hope To Avert A Disaster

by Melinda Tuhus | May 1, 2006 9:30 pm | Comments (0)

Gary Spinner (pictured, with patient Virginia Cooper), who is both a physician’s assistant (PA) and the chief operating officer of the Hill Health Center, is worried. He’s afraid that a new interpretation by the Commissioner of Public Health of the statute regulating how PAs can function could spell disaster for not only his patients, but for any health program in the state that treats mostly low-income patients and patients of color.

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