Health

An expert expects an increase in Connecticut monkeypox cases to spill over from New York.

This hour on Where We Live, we take a deep dive into new research, treatment gaps, disparities, and myths about menopause

Across the U.S., there are more than 4,600 reported monkeypox cases.

A lack of funding, hospital consolidations, attrition rates and declining reimbursements are affecting EMS services statewide.

Despite calls from the state’s attorney general and health care advocates to hold a more formal hearing on a proposal to substantially increase rates on 2023 health plans, Connecticut’s insurance department will proceed with its usual informational hearing, albeit in a new location.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a look at conspirituality — the convergence of right-wing conspiracies, New Age spirituality, and grift — how conspiracy theories can sometimes cover up real conspiracies.

Connecticut has received an initial installment of $11 million from a $26 billion multistate settlement with Johnson & Johnson and drug wholesalers AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson. The four drug companies were sued for their roles in the opioid crisis. Over the next 18 years, Connecticut will receive $300 million as part of the settlement reached in February. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced the first payment in Waterbury on Monday. He was joined by state officials and also parents who lost children to the opioid crisis.

The Connecticut Department of Public Health said the majority of the patients have not been hospitalized.

Despite their caution, a Connecticut family is now struggling to comprehend the shocking death of their healthy baby, after a devastating viral infection.

A man in his 40s has contracted Connecticut’s first recorded case of monkeypox, state health officials said Tuesday.