Category: Health & Fitness

School Raises Money for 6-year-old In Need of New Heart

[box]by Jeff Valin / WTNH[/box] As the old saying goes, the pen is mightier than the sword, but the students at a North Haven elementary school hope the penny is even mightier as they go

Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University Launching a Body Donation Program

The Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University is launching a body donation program. Bodies donated to the program at Connecticut’s newest medical school will be used to supplement the supply that is being used to

Quinnipiac University’s New Anesthesiologist Assistant Program Receives State Approval

[box]William Paulsen, director of the anesthesiologist assistant program and professor of biomedical sciences in the School of Health Sciences at Quinnipiac.[/box] Quinnipiac University has launched an anesthesiologist assistant program, which will begin this summer. The new master of health science program was

Yale Professor of Psychology Offers Ways to Help Your Child Cope with the Recent Tragedy in Newtown, CT

Alan E. Kazdin is the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology at Yale University and Director of Yale’s Parenting Center. This is raw, unedited footage from an interview in which Dr. Kazdin offers ways to

North Haven Resident Re-Elected Secretary-Treasurer of Physician Assistant Education Association

William Kohlhepp, of North Haven, associate dean of the School of Health Sciences at Quinnipiac University, has been re-elected to a three-year term as secretary-treasurer of the Physician Assistant Education Association.   The PAEA is the only national organization

QU Physical Therapy Students Use Wheelchairs to Deepen Understanding of Disabled Patients

[box]Hannah Wood, a fourth-year physical therapy student at Quinnipiac University, was among the physical therapy students who recently spent 24 hours in wheelchairs to deepen their understanding of disabled patients.[/box] For Meaghan Lynch, a third-year

North Haven Residents Learn of Methadone Clinic

[box]By Michael Bellmore, Register Staff[/box] Conversations about opiates do not usually take place in kindergarten classrooms, but on Monday nigh, First Selectman Michael J. Freda arranged such a room be used in the North Haven

Public Meeting Scheduled To Address Concerns About Methadone Clinic Coming to North Haven

North Haven’s Planning & Zoning Committee has granted the APT Foundation the site on 352 State Street (at the intersection of State Street and Sackett Point Road) for one of their treatment facilities. APT is

Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at QU Earns Important Approvals from LCME and State Board of Education

The Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University earned two important endorsements this week as it moves closer to offering its first classes to students who aspire to become primary care physicians. The Liaison Committee on

North Haven Resident Appointed to the Founding Faculty of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at QU

Richard A. Gonzalez, of North Haven, has been appointed to the founding faculty of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. As an assistant professor of medical sciences, Gonzalez is responsible for teaching human

2nd Annual Festival to ACE ALS at the High Lane Club

Come see local tennis pros and coaches compete with their students to raise money to benefit the ALS Association. The High Lane Club at 40 High Lane in North Haven hosts the event on Saturday, August

Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at QU Receives $100,000 Grant

[box]A rendering of a laboratory in the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. The medical school is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2013 on Quinnipiac’s North Haven Campus.[/box] The