Targeting Type 1 Diabetes
A research team at the Yale School of Medicine has identified insulin proteins as the targets of diabetes-causing immune cells.
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Grant To Study Apoptosis
University of Connecticut professor Charles Giardina has been awarded a $350,000 National Institutes of Health grant to study the proce...
Healing Microwaves Treat Prostate
Benign prostatic hyperplasia, or enlarged prostate, can be effectively treated with microwaves in a treatment newly available ...
Historical Society Talk Will Uncover The Revolution
Town Historian Daniel Cruson will discuss two archeological digs at Putnam State Park when the Newtown Histo...
Olfactory Cells Hold Hope
Olfactory cells could help repair damaged spinal cords, according to Yale Professor Charles Greer, director of Yale’s Spin...
Newcomers To Meet Jan. 11
The Newtown Newcomers Club will host a monthly coffee at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street in Newtown (near the flagpole), on Tues...
Help For Low Vision
WEST HARTFORD — Low-income workers and their families may qualify for free eye care through a program called Vision USA that is ...
Hospitals’ Link Helps Children
WATERBURY — To better serve sick children, Waterbury Hospital and the Connecticut Children’s...
Helmer A.
Lantz
Helmer A. (Lefty) Lantz, 82, a resident of Elm Street, Bennington, Vt., died December 31 at the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center following a...
Lamont Directs Flags To Half-Staff Friday In Honor Of Former US Senator Joseph LiebermanGovernor Ned Lamont is directing US and state flags in Connecticut to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset tomorrow as a mark of solemn respect for the memory and longstanding service of former US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who died Wednesday. HARTFORD — Governor Ned Lamont today announced that as a mark of solemn respect for the memory and longstanding service of former US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who died Wednesday, March 27, he is directing US and state flags in Connecticut lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on the day of the former senator’s funeral, which has been scheduled for Friday, March 29.Accordingly, since no flag should fly higher than the US flag, all other flags, including state, municipal, corporate, or otherwise, should also be lowered during this same duration of time.The funeral service will be held at Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford.Lieberman, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain’s running mate eight years later, died in New York City on Wednesday due to complications from a fall, according to a statement issued by his family. He was 82.Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, have four children.
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