by | Jun 4, 2009 8:11 am | Comments (0)
Connecticut suffered the sixth-highest rate of cancer in the U.S. in 2001, but doctors speaking at Cancer Survivors Day 2009 Wednesday were optimistic that Yale’s new cancer hospital and vast West Campus will significantly improve care, if not decrease cancer mortality.
by | May 30, 2009 9:51 pm | Comments (0)
State Sen. Jonathan A. Harris released the following statement Saturday after the State Senate passed the health-reform proposal known as Sustinet:
by | May 27, 2009 8:33 am | Comments (3)
A hundred new patients a week come to the Hill Health Center’s various locations. Now $1.7 million in federal stimulus money will help the clinics meet that growing need. Sen. Joe Lieberman was on hand Tuesday morning to talk about it.
by | May 22, 2009 9:54 am | Comments (82)
Black and Latina women are less likely to get osteoporosis — but they can still get it.
by | May 12, 2009 5:06 pm | Comments (0)
One New Haven resident has contracted the H1N1, or swine, flu, according to state officials.
by | May 6, 2009 2:47 pm | Comments (3)
Jose got his asthma checked out and received some advice about losing weight. It was just a routine check-up — but an extraordinary visit to the doctor.
by | May 3, 2009 1:38 pm | Comments (1)
That was the title of a conference organized this past week by a state-based medical research foundation. It explored how the new online world will impact health care — or, in the sponsor’s words, “What Happens When Social Media and Medicine Collide?” Jennifer Burke Labriola of the Donaghue Foundation, which sponsored the event, sent in the following photos and captions. (After-conference blog here.)
by | Apr 30, 2009 6:08 pm | Comments (20)
(Updated 7:11 p.m.) Connecticut is investigating four possible cases of swine flu at Yale.
by | Apr 29, 2009 1:02 pm | Comments (2)
The room was full of medical researchers at a top research institution. A bioethicist strolled in — and told them the government should stop sending billions of dollars in research grants if it wants to fix health care.
Continue reading ‘Cost-Cutter Enters Health Care Lion’s Den’
by | Apr 29, 2009 8:29 am | Comments (0)
Men don’t like to do a lot of things. Prostate exams are near the top of the list. But counseled by brothers, or delivered by wives, about 85 men underwent prostate cancer screening Tuesday afternoon at the Hospital of Saint Raphael.
by | Apr 28, 2009 8:00 am | Comments (0)
New Haven need not panic over swine flu, but the new, mysterious virus could become more virulent and spread quickly from neighboring New York, health specialists said.
by | Apr 21, 2009 12:37 pm | Comments (1)
HARTFORD — Electronic medical records could potentially cut Connecticut’s health care costs, experts told a state panel, but thorny ethical and technical questions must first be addressed.
That’s where you come in.by | Apr 17, 2009 7:58 am | Comments (27)
The director of a small non-profit in New Haven was worried about that a new state universal health plan might mean she’d have a harder time covering her older, less healthy workers. She was relieved to find out that’s not how it would work.
by | Apr 12, 2009 5:45 pm | Comments (2)
In a new health study, Connecticut’s Asian population fared quite well except in one eye-popping category: its tuberculosis (TB) rate is 23 times higher than whites’.
by | Apr 7, 2009 11:45 am | Comments (3)
Her death not only sparked a life-saving traffic campaign. Mila Rainof directly saved lives, too, by leaving behind a heart of gold.
by | Apr 7, 2009 12:14 am | Comments (0)
One of the drawbacks of standing on two legs is back pain. Physicians and surgeons at the Hospital of Saint Raphael are investigating new ways to alleviate the discomfort without major surgery.
by | Apr 1, 2009 9:55 am | Comments (20)
When special education teacher Tanya Dana’s young son was slow to learn to speak, she learned firsthand what the parents of her students go through.
by | Mar 27, 2009 2:39 pm | Comments (3)
Back in 2007, a teenage girl was in the right place at the right time, the parking lot of a New Haven drug treatment facility, when she overdosed on drugs. Staffers saved her with an antidote called Narcan. New data from Yale researchers show that the antidote could have saved more than three-quarters of those who’ve died from accidental drug overdoses.
by | Mar 24, 2009 3:49 pm | Comments (28)
New Haven public-school students continue to lag behind the state in science, but some brights spots have appeared on the horizon.
by | Mar 19, 2009 3:40 pm | Comments (2)
A strange group of molluscs, crustaceans, worms and fish have found a way to switch sexes to meet their mating needs. Why don’t more of us follow suit?
by | Feb 27, 2009 9:09 am | Comments (0)
We usually don’t think too much about talking, except when we physically cannot.
by | Feb 26, 2009 7:52 am | Comments (3)
Dr. Thomas J. Lynch Jr., a lung cancer expert at Harvard, was named director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Wednesday.
by | Feb 17, 2009 11:50 am | Comments (2)
The Hospital of St. Raphael is zeroing in on the harder part of cancer treatment: destroying a malignancy without damaging surrounding healthy tissue, or the entire body.
by | Feb 16, 2009 2:20 pm | Comments (2)
When Flora Jones visited two doctors in two days, her charts went straight into a computer database — and pointed the way for Connecticut and the rest of the nation.
by | Feb 13, 2009 7:50 am | Comments (35)
Although no one has actually seen Charles Darwin, and some might describe his existence as only a theory, the founder of evolution was the guest of honor at a 200th birthday celebration.