by | Jul 14, 2022 4:43 pm | Comments (3)
Covid-19 cases have shot back up over the past two weeks, to a level about 11 percent of the peak experienced back in January.
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by | Jul 14, 2022 9:15 am | Comments (0)
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Panelists at Wednesday's event.
The new and the old came together Wednesday night to reflect on how healthcare is changing in New Haven.
by | Jul 13, 2022 4:11 pm | Comments (8)
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FHCHC Medical Assistant Ary Vazquez, pictured, said she is late for work several times a month looking for parking.
Affordable housing is critical for low-income people — but so is affordable health care, and easy, walkable, parkable access to it.
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by | Jul 8, 2022 12:06 pm | Comments (7)
Among the many pressing issues raised by the controversy of police mishandling of an arrestee named Richard “Randy” Cox, one has gone largely unspoken: how the stress of the job impacts officers’ mental health.
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by | Jul 8, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (9)
Sketch of the plan.
Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) has examined its parking-related growing pains, and is now looking for community and government approval for the cure.
by | Jul 6, 2022 4:08 pm | Comments (19)
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She can "do this": Vaccinated Dalia Weinreb (center) with parents Marlene Edelstein and David Weinreb, U.S. Rep. DeLauro, HHS Secretary Becerra.
The top-billed guest was a U.S. cabinet secretary. But six-month-old Fair Havener Dalia Weinreb stole the show — and sent the message.
by | Jul 6, 2022 1:50 pm | Comments (4)
Members of Hamden’s Legislative Council went on record as supporting universal national health insurance — with lowered municipal healthcare costs.
Continue reading ‘Medicare For All Resolution Advances In Hamden’
by | Jul 5, 2022 2:39 pm | Comments (3)
The state Department of Public Health (DPH) reported Tuesday the first locally known case of monkeypox.
by | Jun 28, 2022 9:56 am | Comments (5)
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Clockwise from top left: Oscaima "Patty" Berrios, Kate Liphart, Joel LeChance, and Maria Solomon at Monday's drive.
New blood at the city’s teachers union arranged to draw blood from educators — along with ideas for how to pump new life into the organization and its headquarters.
by | Jun 24, 2022 7:30 pm | Comments (9)
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At Friday's protest downtown.
Hundreds of abortion rights protesters filled the federal courthouse steps downtown to decry the U.S. Supreme Court’s “outrageous” and “unacceptable” overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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OBGYN Iyanna Liles with Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz at Hamden post-ruling rally: "It's devastating."
Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz visited a women’s health center in Hamden Friday hours after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade — and issued a nationwide invitation to individuals with uteruses to come to Connecticut while placing abortion at the forefront of their reelection campaign.
by | Jun 24, 2022 10:48 am | Comments (2)
New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro renewed a call Friday for Congress to enshrine a right to abortion in federal law, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade.
by | Jun 20, 2022 1:42 pm | Comments (9)
Mayor Justin Elicker samples a chocolate espresso cocktail cupcake Monday at the Q House incubator kitchen (above), where baker Maxine Harris (below) displays a stand mixer she received from City Seed.
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It wasn’t too early in the morning to sample an artisanal beer-infused cupcake — or announce an infusion of federal dollars into a recipe for strengthening both public health and entrepreneurship in the Dixwell neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘$194K Seed Planted In Dixwell Food Desert’
by | Jun 17, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (2)
Lisa Saunders.
Lisa Saunders was working out at Edgewood Park early to get her morning calisthenics reps in using the playground as her personal gym before starting the rest of the day.
Saunders used to weigh 400 pounds and now guides other people of color in weight loss based on her personal experience while taking part in an overeaters anonymous group.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: Park Pre-Work Workout Sets The Tone’
by | Jun 15, 2022 1:34 pm | Comments (3)
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Rebecca Patterson, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra's principal cellist and a Neighborhood Music School instructor, plays "Sicilenne" by Maria Theresia von Paradis at Wednesday's announcement.
Four local non-profits will stand on stronger financial footing as they steward New Haven’s history, culture, and mental health care, thanks to a record $35 million donation to the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Record $35M Community Foundation Donation Flows To Music, Museum, Mental Health’
by | Jun 6, 2022 12:40 pm | Comments (4)
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State Rep. Robyn Porter and Katurah Bryant at WNHH FM.
Neighbors on both sides of the Newhallville-Newhall border turned a threat into an opportunity.
by | Jun 4, 2022 8:49 pm | Comments (16)
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Protesters to Brett: Don't do it.
Infuriated by the Supreme Court’s likely reversal of Roe v. Wade and striking down of abortion rights, hundreds of Yale alumni gathered on campus to send a message to their former classmate, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “Change your vote.”
Continue reading ‘Justice Kavanaugh's Classmates Rally For Roe’
by | Jun 3, 2022 3:17 pm | Comments (37)
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Gas-powered leaf blowers: lifeline or life-destroying?
Alder Avshalom-Smith: Blowers hurt breathers; ban hurts businesses.
The environmentalists said: The persistent roar of gas-powered leaf blowers pollute the air and cause long-term health and environmental damage.
The landscapers whose income currently depends on those leaf blowers said: Advocates who want to ban them are out of touch.
“I want to see how many calluses they have,” said one professional.
by | May 30, 2022 9:40 am | Comments (1)
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Sarya Provite leads dance in rain at mental health awareness fair.
Baron “Von Leek” felt nervous at the prospect of talking to others about mental illness for years, he said as rain poured from the sky.
An hour later, sunshine surprised Jocelyn Square Park — and Von Leek found himself rapping about his self-diagnosed schizophrenia to a moved audience of mental health activists and stigma-breakers.
by | May 17, 2022 3:09 pm | Comments (5)
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro Tuesday continued taking a lead on addressing the nationwide infant formula shortage, introducing a bill to allot $28 million in emergency federal funds to tackle the current crisis as well as prevent future ones.
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by | May 16, 2022 5:00 pm | Comments (8)
Green Party Congressional candidate Justin Paglino at WNHH FM.
Justin Paglino is placing universal health care on the ballot again this November — with ranked-choice voting thrown into the mix.
The two issues, he argued, are connected.
by | May 12, 2022 4:49 pm | Comments (29)
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Student protesters marching downtown Thursday.
Three hundred students poured out of New Haven high schools onto city buses and the streets to the New Haven Green to issue a cry for help: We need more counselors, not cops, to help us deal with exploding mental-health concerns.
by | May 11, 2022 1:29 pm | Comments (8)
One recent Wednesday morning, before arriving to Whalley Avenue to open his pharmacy business for a day, Victor Fok drove to a patient’s house to teach them how to test their blood sugar levels, free of charge.
At Fok’s previous job at a large corporate pharmacy chain, he would never have had the time and incentive to prioritize patient education. Now, as a co-owner of the recently-opened True-Care Pharmacy in the Amity neighborhood, Fok and his team hope to reach community members where they live with personally-delivered prescriptions, immunizations, and education initiatives.
by | May 6, 2022 11:54 am | Comments (2)
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Mayor Justin Elicker on Thursday.
Nearly three months after Mayor Justin Elicker first announced that hundreds of vaccine doses had been mishandled by the Health Department, the city is almost done investigating what went wrong — and who’s to blame.
Continue reading ‘Mayor: Vax-Mess Investigation Almost Done’
by | May 4, 2022 9:14 am | Comments (37)
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Protestors at courthouse Tuesday.
In the wake of a reported pending U.S. Supreme Court decision to outlaw Roe v. Wade, New Haven activist are demanding that the nation follow in the footsteps of countries like Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico where abortion is a protected human right.