Southington mother Cathy Morrelli told a nightmarish tale of fighting to keep her suicidal daughter hospitalized. She says her 14-year-old was in and out of the hospital repeatedly over the last five months, their insurance company trying — 13 times — to cut every stay short. Diana Leyden of Glastonbury testified about her insurance company’s […]

Hartford — Technical consultants will give a live demonstration of how consumers might shop around for and enroll in health insurance online during the Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange board’s meeting Thursday. Deloitte Consulting will demonstrate functioning web solutions that will show “the consumer shopping and enrollment experience,” said Jason Madrak, director of marketing and communications […]

Cromwell – Blaise Messinger tells his fifth graders in Room 175 that he is going to teach them the secret to math. He writes “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” on the white board. He tells the class to turn to the left and say the sentence to their neighbor, then turn to the right […]

Calling it a form of chemical restraint, Sen. Richard Blumenthal and advocates for the elderly Tuesday blasted the practice of prescribing antipsychotic drugs for dementia patients in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. “It is a form of elder abuse. It’s chemical restraint — no less pernicious and insidious than physical restraint of patients […]

Police who arrive at the scene of domestic violence will now have a checklist to help them determine if a victim is at imminent risk of serious injury or death, under a program announced Monday. Under the program being piloted in 14 communities, officers will be trained to assess the situation and warn victims if […]

Leading academic and industry researchers described breakthroughs they are making in building new lungs, treating epilepsy and repairing heart defects and the impact that stem cell research is already having on the state’s economy during a legislative forum Monday. The legislature’s Appropriations Committee held the informational forum to get an update on the latest genomic […]

More Connecticut families fell below the poverty level last year, with children hit particularly hard, as the state struggles to get to its feet in a tepid recovery, a new U.S. Census survey shows. Nearly 15 percent of children in the state live in poverty, according to the Census, as does nearly 50 percent of […]

The American Cancer Society is recruiting more than 6,000 volunteers in Connecticut and Massachusetts for a historic survey to try to discover new ways to prevent cancer. In greater Hartford, the group will recruit at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, The University of Connecticut Health Center, UTC Aerospace Systems, the Wheeler Regional YMCA and […]

If Connecticut remains on its current trajectory, 46.5 percent of adults in the state will be obese by the year 2030, according to a national report released today. As the same time, hundreds of thousands of adults will develop diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure and other obesity-related diseases. This will drive up Connecticut health costs […]

Yale researcher Meghan Morean: A short time lag between the teen’s first drink and becoming drunk is a predictor of a serious drinking problem by senior year of college. Teens who have their first drink at an early age and quickly progress to drinking to intoxication are likely to be heavy drinkers and have alcohol-related […]

Premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage in the United States rose 4 percent over last year, a modest increase compared with recent years but still higher than the 1.7 percent growth in workers’ wages, a national survey found. “A 4 percent increase is a low increase, and it is good news,” Drew Altman, Kaiser Family […]

Storrs — A $1.1 million van outfitted with prison bunk beds and realistic “breathing” inmate mannequins made its first stop Monday on its way to serve as a mobile classroom for nurses in the state’s prisons. The UConn School of Nursing opened the 40-foot Correctional Nursing Simulation Van to the public during a launching ceremony […]

Storrs — Leaders from Jackson Laboratory and the University of Connecticut urged an auditorium packed with biologists and researchers Thursday to pair up and share ideas to build one of the most innovative genomics program in the country. Jackson Laboratory CEO Edison Liu kicked off a two-day symposium on genomics by describing his vision of […]