Health

Pfizer and BioNTech are planning to ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize a second COVID-19 booster shot for people age 65 and older.

The Department of Public Health said problems at the Quinnipiac Valley Center were serious enough to threaten the health of the people being cared for there.

Victims of opioids and those who have lost loved ones to the addiction crisis are unloading their emotions on members of the family they blame for fueling the deadly epidemic.

More than 50% of wheelchairs break down in a typical six-month period, experts say. And while those in the industry point to many causes, people who use wheelchairs suffer the consequences.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest color-coded map shows Hampshire County as the only county in the state with "medium" community COVID-19 levels.

Health care experts say that confirmed deaths represent a fraction of the true number of deaths due to COVID because of limited testing.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong joined "All Things Considered" a day after he announced that Connecticut is expected to receive $95 million for treatment and prevention of opioid addiction.

A bill that would allow terminally ill patients access to medication that would end their lives cleared an important hurdle Friday afternoon, passing out of the Public Health Committee for the second consecutive year.

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Federal and state agriculture officials said Wednesday a case of avian flu has been found in flock of birds in Connecticut, marking the first occurrence of the disease this year in the state.

Now, in a development doctors are calling revolutionary, an international group of neurologists has deciphered the mystery of why people get migraines and, in doing so, has determined how to greatly reduce their frequency and severity.