Purdue Pharma, in bankruptcy and embroiled in thousands of lawsuits for its role in the opioid crisis, paid Connecticut doctors and nurse practitioners $394,662 in 2018, a slight drop of 9% from $433,246 the prior year, federal data show.
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Access Health sees dip in enrollment
Fewer residents signed up for coverage through Access Health CT, the state’s insurance exchange, during the enrollment period that ended in January than during previous year, officials said Thursday.
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Hundreds turn out to testify on plan to repeal CT’s religious vaccine exemption
Lawmakers pledged to include feedback from Wednesday’s public hearing in later versions of the bill.
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Advocates say proposal to ban flavored vaping products doesn’t go far enough
Missing from the governor’s plan is a broader prohibition on flavored tobacco goods, including menthol cigarettes and fruit flavored cigars.
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Connecticut drug overdose deaths up, with fentanyl leading fatalities
The number of people who died in Connecticut from drug overdoses in 2019 was the most the state has recorded in a single year, even after a dip in deaths in 2018.
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Cases of lead-poisoned children drop 17%
A total of 1,665 Connecticut children under age 6 had lead poisoning in 2017, a drop of almost 17% from the year before and the largest one-year decrease in five years, according to a just-released report from the state Department of Public Health (DPH). But more children showed higher levels of the toxin in their blood than in 2016, […]
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Blumenthal decries ‘public health suicide’ budget
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal railed against the “public health suicide” that is President Donald Trump’s newly proposed federal budget, which would cut $3 billion from the National Institutes of Health at the same time that the deadly coronavirus continues to spread throughout China and the world.
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To fight Chinese outbreak, doctors deploy drugs targeting HIV, malaria and Ebola
As the scientific community scrambles to find a drug that can effectively treat tens of thousands of patients sickened by a new respiratory virus, they are trying some surprising remedies: medicines targeting known killers like HIV, Ebola and malaria.
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Lawmakers to revive aid in dying, crisis pregnancy centers legislation
Aid in dying and the regulation of faith-based pregnancy centers are poised to return this legislative session.
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Insulin bill would cap monthly supplies of drug at $50
The measure is more aggressive than similar efforts in Illinois and Colorado, which capped insulin costs at $100 per month.
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Fiscal cure sought for UConn Health
Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration is questioning whether the state can afford to continue subsidizing the public teaching hospital.
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CT lawmakers pan Trump administration response to coronavirus
The federal government has scrambled to keep the coronavirus at bay, but Connecticut’s Democratic lawmakers say that’s not enough.
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Fact-checking President Trump’s State of Union regarding health
President Donald Trump had a lot to say about health care in his State of the Union address Tuesday night — not all of it completely accurate.
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New Haven police offer addicts clean needles, harm reduction kits
New Haven police have begun distributing free plastic baggies of clean needles, sterile glass pipes, and information about local drug rehabilitation services to those released from their lock up as part of a new initiative to use “harm reduction” principles to curb addiction.
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Homelessness can traumatize a young child for life…
For the first time, the state, children’s advocates and housing organizations are participating in an initiative that focuses specifically on pregnant women and children under 6 who are homeless or housing unstable.