NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 15 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Robert Rohrbaugh, MD, professor of psychiatry and associate dean for global health education, has been appointed as deputy dean for professionalism and leadership development in the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Office of Academic & Professional Development (OAPD), effective immediately. After receiving his MD from YSM in 1982, Rohrbaugh completed his residency and a fellowship in geropsychiatry at  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 15 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2021: Attorney General William Tong announced today two antitrust settlements totaling $1.6 million with Women's Health USA, In Vitro Science Inc., the Center for Advanced Reproductive Services, PC and Reproductive Medicine Associates of CT. The settlements are the first of their kind in Connecticut involving anticompetitive conduct by a physician practice management comp more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 17 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: Attorney General William Tong has joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general in a court brief challenging the Texas six-week abortion ban as an unconstitutional effort to overturn nearly five decades of Supreme Court precedent. With additional states across the country seeking to impose additional barriers to safe access to reproductive healthcare, Attorney General T more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 18 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Sept. 17, 2021: Attorney General William Tong filed formal notice today with the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York that Connecticut will appeal a controversial and unprecedented decision that purports to extinguish Connecticut's claims against both Purdue Pharma and the non-bankrupt Sackler family. "The Sacklers are not bankrupt. We cannot allow ou more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 16 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that more than 50 million pages of state government documents have been digitized through a public-private partnership with Scan-Optics, a data management company based in Manchester, as part of an ongoing initiative to modernize services and produce efficiencies within state government. Governor Lamont said the elimination of paper documen more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 14 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: As the State of Connecticut continues taking actions in response to the global spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Governor Ned Lamont provided the following updates as of 3:00 p.m. on Monday, September 13, 2021: Data updates on testing in Connecticut The following is a summary of the day-to-day newly reported data on cases and tests in Connecticut. It is important to note that these ne more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 16 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Sept. 15, 2021: As the State of Connecticut continues taking actions in response to the global spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Governor Ned Lamont provided the following updates as of 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 15, 2021: Data updates on testing in Connecticut The following is a summary of the day-to-day newly reported data on cases and tests in Connecticut. It is important  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 16 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: As the State of Connecticut continues taking actions in response to the global spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Governor Ned Lamont provided the following updates as of 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 14, 2021: Data updates on testing in Connecticut The following is a summary of the day-to-day newly reported data on cases and tests in Connecticut. It is important to note that these n more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 17 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: As the State of Connecticut continues taking actions in response to the global spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Governor Ned Lamont provided the following updates as of 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 16, 2021: Data updates on testing in Connecticut The following is a summary of the day-to-day newly reported data on cases, deaths, and tests in Connecticut. It is important to note th more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 16 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on Sept. 15, 2021: * * * Governor Ned Lamont today released the following statement: "This afternoon, my administration was informed by the White House that our state will soon be asked to accept as many as 310 Afghan refugees for resettlement in Connecticut. "I welcome these individuals with open arms into our wonderful state. In anticipation of this moment, I directed the Connecticut Departmen more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, Sept. 15 (TNSBook) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Eastern Connecticut State University music professor Timothy Cochran recently published a book titled "Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film." The book, which analyses the impact of music in films, was published by Routledge, a multinational publishing company that specializes in academic journals, books and online resources. Originating as a study of a multitude of different f more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 16 (TNSGra) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Yale School of Medicine (YSM) has been awarded nearly $63.7 million over the next five years from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to renew its five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) to accelerate research discoveries that can have a positive impact on health. This is the third renewal for Yale, which was the only site in New England among the first more PR

WATERBURY, Connecticut, Sept. 14 (TNSAwa) -- Post University issued the following news release: Post University has been awarded a Silver Stevie(R) Award in the Employer of the Year category in the sixth annual Stevie Awards for Great Employers. The university was recognized for its efforts in supporting faculty, associates, and students during the pivot to online learning at the onset of the pandemic. "I am so proud of our nearly 2,000 faculty and staff who worked tirelessly and cohesively to more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 18 (TNSPar) -- Trinity College issued the following news: * * * SINA, Trinity College, and Other Local Partners Come Together to Rehab Frog Hollow Neighborhood Homes Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance (SINA)--in collaboration with institutional partners Trinity College, Connecticut's Children's Medical Center, and Hartford Hospital--is working to make homeownership a reality for Hartford families. The program, SINA's Cityscape project, provides housing o more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 18 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: New findings from a large study led by researchers at Yale Cancer Center shows the addition of the drugs oleclumab or monalizumab to durvalumab improved progression-free survival for patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The data is part of the COAST trial and will be presented on September 17, 2021 at the annual meeting of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 14 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: A new paper by Yale researchers finds racial disparities in the use of physical restraints on children who are admitted to the emergency department. Black children are more likely than White children to be subdued with restraints during ED visits, the study finds. Published September 13 in JAMA Pediatrics, the study looked at data from 11 EDs across New England between 2013 and 2020. Their sample inc more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 14 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news release: Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that drives the progression of uveal melanoma (UM), an often lethal eye cancer in adults. The finding, published in the journal Nature Communications, may offer an opportunity to develop treatments to suppress earlier a lethal type of tumor that spreads to other parts of the body. It also represents a breakthrough in understanding cancer biology, lin more PR