Governor M. Jodi Rell announced that the State of Connecticut is receiving $3.75 million federal grant to expand access to health care in Hartford for low-income women nearing childbirth to ensure their newborns get a healthy start. "Our children are our most precious resource and the health of a child is intrinsic to the health of the mother," stated Governor Rell.

Family event celebrates the lives of cancer patients and raised $175,000 for the University of Minnesota's cutting-edge pediatric cancer research. (PRWeb Jul 2, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2595684.htm

Women who get less than the recommended eight hours sleep a night are at higher risk of heart disease and heart-related problems than men with the same sleeping patterns. Research by the University of Warwick and University College London has found that levels of inflammatory markers vary significantly with sleep duration in women, but not men.

Sometimes doctors ask us questions that seem to make no sense and are clearly annoying to us. Breathinstephen outlines his 7 silliest asthma questions that doctors ask and his humorous...

Each year in this country, one of every three people over age 65 suffers a fall, resulting in nearly 16,000 deaths. The federal government estimates that 1.8 million older adults who fall are treated each year in hospital emergency rooms for nonfatal injuries - including bruises, fractures and head trauma - and that 433,000 of those individuals need to be hospitalized because of their injuries.

To honor (sort of) the former Surgeon General of the United States and fellow anti-smoking advocate, I have officially assigned his name my new construction project. Dr. Koop is very talented and well-spoken pediatric surgeon and has probably never had a real coop named after him. The "C" in this case stands for chicken. I have called my new chicken coop C. Everett Coop. I was going to call it Chicken Ranch II, but I think there is a Nevada brothel by that name. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigbold/ / CC BY 2.0 On my recent days off, I decided to construct a chicken coop and covered enclosure. Not only will I be able to get fresh eggs (eventually), I will have a ready source of manure for my floundering organic garden that was recently destroyed by an unseasonable hail storm. I also read a recent article in Newsweek or Time (I can't remember since I get both) about feeding chickens flax seed so they will lay eggs that are high in Omega 3 fatty acids ! I am going to get some super-eggs.

Kathy AdamsPhoto © Confident Clothing CompanyKathy Adams is a fitness trainer and a breast cancer survivor. When she turned 50, she was diagnosed with Stage III, Grade 3 Invasive...

Ellis Moser and his Proud Parents Of course, we knew he was going to be a boy months ago. There are few surprises in obstetrics anymore, unless of course, you are having a litter of septuplets that end up to be octuplets at the time of delivery. New parents are very excited when they spot the weenie on the ultrasound. In the old days, we had to wait until the baby was born to know what parts they wore. When I saw pregnant patient in those days, I would always guess the sex of their unborn baby. Surprisingly, I was right 50% of the time.

Training people to avoid falls by repeatedly exposing them to unstable situations in the laboratory helped them to later maintain their balance on a slippery floor, according to new research from the Journal of Neurophysiology. The study furthered the understanding of how the brain develops fall prevention strategies that can be generalized to a variety of conditions.