Nearly two dozen Connecticut municipalities and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation have declared racism a public health crisis. Those actions, during the second half of 2020, appear to have set the stage for state action this year.
Read MoreWhether recently released studies in the U.S. and Europe will provide sufficient reason to pause as Connecticut edges ever closer to legalizing recreational marijuana during the current session of the state legislature remains an open question.
Read MoreThe Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization focused on health care safety and quality, has released its annual Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, which show that seven Connecticut hospitals earned an “A” grade.
Read MoreConnecticut had the nation’s 4th highest rate of flu vaccination coverage among adults 18 years and older during last year’s flu season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Read MoreFor leading members of the incoming Biden administration’s environmental team, Monday’s announcement from states in which they’ve spend portions of their lives and careers had to be good news.
Read MoreThe Yale School of Public Health has been on a roll during the past few months, even as it was encountering a noisy bump in the road. The good news: Dr. Anthony Fauci, will give the 2021 commencement address. Marcella Nunez-Smith will serve in the incoming Biden Administration, leading a new COVID-19 task force on equity issues. But there’s more swirling about.
Read MoreA professor with the Yale School of Medicine will serve as a co-chair of President-elect Joe Biden’s task force on the coronavirus. Marcella Nunez-Smith is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Public Health, and of Management at Yale School of Management.
Read MoreThere hasn’t been any federal funded research into gun violence in this century. Until now. And a University of Connecticut researcher is among those to receive a share of the funding, authorized by Congress last year. It is the first federal funding into gun violence since 1996.
Read More“We are in a precarious position,” explained Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, who is leading the COVID-19 response at the NIH. Fauci returned as a guest this month on Conversations On Health Care, a radio program/podcast on healthcare issues produced by Community Health Center, Inc., based in Middletown and distributed nationally.
Read MoreTwenty Connecticut communities are among the top 50 percent in a ranking of the Best Small Cities in America, according to a new analysis. The Connecticut municipalities were led by Westport, Wethersfield, Shelton, and West Hartford.
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