Health

Climate change is expected to drive up cardiovascular deaths nationwide as Americans confront more extreme heat. But new research finds Black people could be seven times more likely to die from heat-induced heart events.

Health workers who reported harassment also reported higher rates of anxiety and depression, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.

The Bridge Family Center faces scrutiny following allegations of child abuse at its STAR home in Harwinton. Despite records of incidents since 2021, the organization cites recent challenges with a post-pandemic workforce crisis.

CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen visited the Fair Haven Community Health Care Center in New Haven Thursday to emphasize the need for Connecticut residents to get vaccines.

New federally-funded study links PFAS to ovarian and uterine cancers in white women, and phenols to breast cancer in non-white women.

The City of Hartford is collaborating with Headspace, a popular mental health app, and Copper Beech Institute, a wellness nonprofit in West Hartford, in response to escalating anxiety and depression among residents, city officials said.

Following the CDC’s recommendation to get the updated COVID-19 vaccine for the fall and winter season, Connecticut towns are launching campaigns to spread the message.

Several residents at Waterbury Gardens nursing home are on ventilators. They are expected to receive a 60-day notice with a discharge plan in the next few days.

Researchers took skin cells from patients with autism and from their fathers who did not have autism. They then used those cells modeling brain development in-vitro.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, The Nose looks at two movies starring Hong Chau, Kelly Reichardt’s ‘Showing Up’ and Darren Aronofsky’s ‘The Whale.’