Advocates for a controversial bill that would allow assisted suicide for the terminally ill in Connecticut will hold a press conference on Tuesday afternoon at the Legislative Office Building. Organized by the non-profit group Compassion & Choices, the press conference at 1 p.m. in Room 2B will feature patients, clergy members, doctors and others who […]

Whooping cough, a childhood scourge in the 1940s, has had a resurgence in Connecticut as part of a national epidemic. The outbreak peaked in Connecticut in September with 178 cases reported in 2012, though numbers are still coming in. This is a big increase from 68 cases last year, and roughly double the normal caseload […]

Using a new state grant, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center will offer a hands-on, interactive program for greater Hartford area high school students to encourage them to make smart decisions in risky situations. As part of the program, teens will see a LifeStar/helipad demonstration, watch a trauma surgeon conduct a mock trauma response and […]

Dr. Paul A. Bluestein felt pain in his chest and instinctively knew what was wrong. It had to be coronary artery disease, the physician thought, noting that the deadly heart disease runs in his family. The pain kept flaring up, often striking when he got out of bed in the morning. Yet, in spite of […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is expected to make a major economic development announcement at noon today at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Jackson Laboratory research institute next to the UConn Health Center in Farmington. The Governor’s office did not release further details about the announcement, which will be made before about 200 dignitaries, researchers, civic […]

Hoping to ramp up Connecticut’s bioscience industry, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Thursday proposed spending $200 million in state funds over the next 10 years to attract and invest in more bioscience companies. Malloy made the announcement at a large groundbreaking ceremony held in a heated, white wedding-style tent for the billion-dollar Jackson Laboratory for Genomic […]

About 200 dignitaries, researchers and others are expected to attend a daylong groundbreaking celebration Thursday for the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine at the construction site next to the UConn Health Center in Farmington. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst, Jackson Lab President and CEO Edison Liu will be among those […]

Connecticut’s population is already the seventh oldest in the nation, and it’s getting grayer by the minute. With that in mind, municipal leaders, legislators and policy experts packed a forum at the state Capitol Monday to learn how to better prepare their communities for the coming “silver tsunami” of baby-boomers hitting age 65. Despite the […]

This season’s flu outbreak has swamped Connecticut emergency rooms and walk-in clinics and forced some hospitals to add extra beds and temporary staff to keep up with the onslaught. “I haven’t seen a flu outbreak this bad in the seven years I’ve been at St. Francis,” Rolf Knoll, chief medical officer at St. Francis Hospital […]

Connecticut workers are getting ill on the job less often than in recent years, but still more frequently than the national average, according to a new state report. The report, called Occupational Disease in Connecticut, 2012, shows that on-the-job illnesses decreased by 12 percent from the year before, continuing a downward trend for the past […]

Correction at bottom of story Back in the 1980s, when no one knew much about AIDS, Freddy played percussion in Latino bands in clubs in New York and Puerto Rico. In the early morning, after the gig, they would go to a “shooting gallery,” where they would romance heroin and cocaine. At the time, Freddy […]

University of Connecticut researcher Brenton Graveley has just won a $9.3 million federal grant to study how the human genome works. Not bad, considering he became a biologist by mistake. Graveley intended to become a journalist years ago when he entered the University of Colorado, but he couldn’t get into any journalism classes because they […]