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January 12, 2021
Hartford HealthCare, in partnership with state agencies, has begun vaccinating Connecticut residents 75 and older to protect our most vulnerable…
December 29, 2020
Hard as it may be to believe, life did exist beyond COVID-19 this year and, while many healthcare professionals tended…
November 09, 2020
“Today” show meteorologist Al Roker called his recent prostate cancer diagnosis “good-news, bad-news kind of thing.” While the bad news…
September 25, 2020
Prostate cancer kills thousands of men every year, but healthcare disparities – the way people of different races, addresses, income…
September 04, 2020
One cancer, with three specialists, can mean multiple appointments in different locations and waiting anxiously in between. Now, men diagnosed…
August 27, 2020
It’s a fine line between overdiagnosing and overtreating prostate cancer. A recent study showing an increase in the rate of…
July 23, 2020
Is it too much to ask a man to care for his health as he would his car? Most men are better at scheduling regular oil changes for their car than regular health checks. “Men are much less likely to go to the doctor if they have something wrong with…
July 22, 2020
Kidney or renal cancer, although one of the rarer forms of the disease, is newly diagnosed in about 200,000 people each year. More common for men over the age of 60, kidney cancer comes in various types, some life-threatening if left untreated. On Tuesday, July 28, from 6:30 to 8…
June 04, 2020
With safety measures in place, Hartford HealthCare (HHC) announced a phased-in relaxation of the visitor restrictions put into place during…
June 01, 2020
It’s all about making it safe, easy and stress-free for people to see their healthcare providers in this COVID-governed world, and the folks at Hartford HealthCare’s Tallwood Urology & Kidney Institute have a method to do both. At Tallwood’s Waterford location, Michael Spinnato of Mystic recently pulled into the parking…
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