HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 12 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Aug. 11, 2021: Attorney General William Tong today announced a $350,000 joint state and federal settlement with Cornell Scott Hill Health Corporation (CSHHC) resolving allegations that the New Haven-based health center carried out a policy that resulted in overbilling the state's Medicaid program for certain dental services. CSHHC is a community-based Federally Qualified Health Cent more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 14 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Aug. 13, 2021: Attorney General William Tong today announced a $678,901 joint state and federal settlement with L.A. Vision and optician Lisa Azinheira resolving allegations that the Hartford-based vision care service provider overbilled the state Medicaid program for vision care services and eyeglasses. A joint state and federal investigation found that from January 1, 2014 through more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 10 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2021: Attorney General William Tong today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fight back against the scourge of illegal robocalls by moving up the deadline for smaller telephone companies to implement caller ID technology. "If you've noticed lately that your phone is screening spam calls from fake phone numbers, that's STIR/SHAKEN in action. It's not a perfe more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 10 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following joint statement: * * * Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Katie Dykes released the following joint statement in response to the report issued today by the United Nations on the global impacts of climate change: "The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report authored by 200 climate scientists again confirms what we know, th more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 11 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont is applauding President Joe Biden, Senator Richard Blumenthal, Senator Chris Murphy, and a bipartisan coalition of the United States Senate for passing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act today. The historic legislation will make the largest investment in United States infrastructure in decades. The comprehensive package includes new funding for Connecticut's roads, b more PR

HASTINGS, Nebraska, Aug. 11 (TNSPar) -- Hastings College issued the following news release: Hastings College, which began providing all required textbooks for students in the fall of 2019, has partnered with Norwalk, Connecticut-based digital course content platform Akademos to increase accessibility of course content and launch an updated online bookstore and Spirit Shop. In parallel with the launch this fall, the College closed its on-campus bookstore over the summer and is reopening a Spiri more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 14 (TNSRes) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Throughout the summer of 2021, ten Trinity students have been conducting research in mathematics, some on campus and some from a distance. Hanyang Luo '24 and Adam Minahan '23, are two students whose research work has taken place on Trinity's campus. Working with Ryan Pellico, lecturer in mathematics, their project is focused on modeling suspension bridges with non-linear ordinary differential equations. For M more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 13 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news on Aug. 12, 2021: A new publication by Yale Cancer Center highlights recent breakthrough therapies developed to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The goal of the study is to provide views on how basic science advances will impact clinical research areas to help influence how NSCLC will be managed over the coming decade. The perspective is published online today in the journal Nature Medicine.  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 14 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news release: Social media platforms like Twitter amplify expressions of moral outrage over time because users learn such language gets rewarded with an increased number of "likes" and "shares," a new Yale University study shows. And these rewards had the greatest influence on users connected with politically moderate networks. "Social media's incentives are changing the tone of our political conversations online more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 13 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news release: As the world's nations prepare to set new goals for protecting biodiversity, Yale researchers have identified where data gaps continue to limit effective conservation decisions. In a new study, a team of researchers created maps and assessed regional trends in how well existing species data are able to represent the distribution of 31,000 terrestrial vertebrates worldwide and therefore help inform po more PR