By Elliot Joseph HHC Chief Executive Officer The history of healthcare in Connecticut begins with hospitals created to serve their communities – sometimes filling an urgent need. Hartford Hospital was established in response to an 1854 industrial accident that left nine dead and dozens wounded – some critically. There was no place to care for […]

By Rocco Orlando III MD Hartford HealthCare Chief Medical Officer A prescription drug can provide relief in the wake of illness or injury. Although most of us try to follow the label instructions, we often don’t finish all the pills. Perhaps some unpleasant side effects kicked in – or the pain’s gone, so we stopped. […]

By Dr. Jared Bieniek Medical Director, Men’s Health Hartford HealthCare Tallwood Urology and Kidney Institute If you were among the 50 percent of adult males between the ages of 40 and 70 with erectile dysfunction, would you pay thousands of dollars for shock-wave treatment, which has uncertainties about long-term effectiveness and safety? Would you be concerned […]

An e-cigarette epidemic has smoked out consistent declines in teen tobacco use, as a new report shows teen “vaping” is to blame for a 1.3 million increase nationwide from 2017 to 2018.

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