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America’s Health Rankings again finds CT’s overall health better than 43 other states. The good news is that we do well with a low rate of smoking (16%), obesity (21%), and uninsured (10%). The bad news is that we have high rates of infectious diseases and low rates of immunizing children. Authors of the rankings…

CT Voices for Children is seeking a budget analyst to research family economic security issues and state fiscal analysis. CT Voices is a New Haven-based nonprofit advocacy organization working on behalf of children and families.

Today’s SustiNet meeting at the Capitol is cancelled due to illness.We’ll let you know when it’s rescheduled.

The Foundation for Community Health has moved to a new home with available meeting rooms. They are holding an Open House October 7th from 4 to 6pm at 155 Sharon Valley Road in Sharon, 06069. Hear about their expanded services and give them ideas for enrichment programs they can host for nonprofits. RSVP by September…

The bad news is that only 165 people having signed up for PCCM – now called HUSKY Primary Care, according to DSS at yesterday’s PCCM Subcommittee meeting. The dept. is spending a lot of time with a small number of providers developing care management plans, procedures, comparison charts, etc. A three page notice about PCCM…

Today’s Hartford Courant online poll is again on health care. Should Congress tax the wealthy to pay for reform?

If we don’t address our broken health care system, 16,220 more CT residents this year will join the 326,000 already uninsured in our state, according to a new report by Families USA. Between the beginning of 2008 and the end of 2010 it is estimated that 48,660 more CT residents will lose coverage if nothing…

According to the Wall Street Journal blog, some 11 and 12 year old children in East London participating in a study on exercise and obesity clipped their pedometers to their dogs to raise their results. The use of pedometers was designed to get around study subjects’ natural tendencies to over-report how much they exercise.

Why were CEOs of large tobacco companies willing to testify under oath that nicotine is not addictive? Why might a patient with a sore knee be more likely to receive an MRI exam if he has conventional health insurance than if he belongs to an HMO? Why do physicians tend to overprescribe antibiotics? Through questions,…

Debate: Was Governor Rell right to veto the uninversal health care bill?Record your opinion – vote today.