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Dr. Jeffrey Gordon wants to treat a new patient with ovarian cancer with Doxil, a chemotherapy drug that’s proven highly effective against the disease. But he is unable to obtain Doxil because, like many other potentially lifesaving drugs, it is in short supply.
A New Haven nursing home faces $2,260 in fines from the state Department of Public Health for lapses in caring for two residents who suffered from malnutrition and dehydration.
Doctors admit it’s sometimes hard to give patients the truth about their prognosis.
The state Medical Examining Board voted unanimously Friday to suspend the medical license of an East Hartford internist charged with raping a patient in an examining room.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal has joined two other senators introducing legislation designed to protect patients from unsafe medical devices without derailing the current fast-tracking system of medical device approvals.
The state Medical Examining Board fined a St. Francis Hospital Cancer Center oncologist $5,000 Tuesday for accidently administering 29 doses of radiation to the left side of a patient’s mouth, when the cancerous mass was on the right side.
A Waterbury group home for people with severe psychiatric disabilities has been cited by the state for failing to provide proper care for two residents with past suicide attempts who injured themselves while in the facility.
Connecticut consumers don’t have an easy way to find out how much a surgical procedure, an x-ray or a blood test costs.You could spend hours on the phone, calling hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices to compare costs. Even Hartford Hospital’s new CarePricer, which is designed to make patients’ queries about hospital costs easier, requires a phone call.
A Westport plastic surgeon was fined $25,000 by the Connecticut Medical Examining Board on Tuesday for operating a clinic that inspectors found had sloppy record-keeping and rusty and dirty equipment.
After bouncing from an alternative school back to his regular high school in New Haven, Lonnie Adams said an administrator told his mother if he wanted to graduate, he’d have to go to an Adult Education program.“I feel like I was treated unjust, like the principal was just trying get me out of his school,’’ said Adams, now 21, who admitted he had been in a “fight or two” in high school before being sent to an alternative school for two years. After three years in Adult Education, he said he is now close to getting his GED, wants to go to community college and hopes to work in video production.