Category: Health & Fitness
Rep. Yaccarino Applauds Bipartisan Plan to Assist Firefighters with Cancer
The bill aims to use existing resources to fund a new account that will provide wage replacement benefits to eligible firefighters who suffer from certain types of cancer.
Quinnipiac University nursing students and professors provide care at Nicaragua hospital during spring break
A group of Quinnipiac University School of Nursing students and professors traveled to Leon, Nicaragua from March 12-19, where they provided care and gave anesthesia to patients in the city hospital.
Quinnipiac University School of Nursing to celebrate its holistic endorsement with lecture on self-care April 13
Gloria Donnelly, dean and professor of the Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions, will present the lecture, “The Examined Life: Professional Obligations for Self-Care,” at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, in the …
Quinnipiac University nursing students selected to attend Student Policy Summit in Washington D.C. March 20-22
Quinnipiac University School of Nursing students Andrew Geller and Natasha Singer were selected to attend the 2016 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Student Policy Summit March 20-22 in Washington, D.C. The summit is …
Peer institutions rank Quinnipiac University’s entry-level graduate occupational therapy program the best in Connecticut, according to U.S. News & World Report
Quinnipiac University’s entry-level master’s degree in occupational therapy program was ranked the best in Connecticut and No. 22 overall in a peer assessment survey of 2017 Best Graduate Schools conducted by U.S. News & World …
Quinnipiac University students raise more than $115,000 for the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
Quinnipiac University students recently raised more than $115,000 for the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center by dancing for The kids at QTHON, a seven-hour dance marathon that attracted 900 students, in the Athletics and Recreation Center …
Two physicians to discuss health care issues facing veterans March 22 at Quinnipiac University
Dr. Lucile Burgo-Black, national co-director of the Post Deployment Integrated Care Initiative, and Dr. Juliette Spelman, a primary care provider at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, will be the featured speakers at …
Quinnipiac University School of Medicine and the NAACP to host Sickle Cell Awareness Day April 1
James Rawlings, clinical instructor of public health at Yale University and president of the Greater New Haven branch of the NAACP, will be the keynote speaker at Sickle Cell Awareness Day, which will take place …
Quinnipiac University School of Medicine to host Rare Disease Day lecture and panel discussion on Feb. 29
Dr. Frederick Kaplan will present the keynote address, “Adopting a Rare Disease,” during a program marking Rare Disease Day, on Monday, Feb. 29 in the Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Quinnipiac University.
Republicans Call for Working Group to Combat Opioid Abuse in Connecticut
Senate & House Republicans are calling on the governor and Democrat lawmakers to come together to form a bipartisan working group to develop a strategy to tackle the devastating rise in heroin abuse and opioid overdoses in Connecticut.
North Haven Boy Celebrates “SMARD Awareness Day” in Recognition of his Rare Disease
The first annual Connecticut SMARD Awareness Day took place on Wednesday February 10. The special day was created to raise awareness for spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress (SMARD), an extremely rare disease. Hunter Pageau, …
From The Desk of State Rep. Dave Yaccarino: SMARD Awareness Day
Last year, State Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano and I submitted a proposal to recognize and bring awareness to the patient suffering associated with a diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress, or SMARD. …