Fear of becoming infected with COVID-19 is reasonable – especially now with plans announced to start reopening Connecticut. There are things you can do to take precautions. C-HIT’s Colleen Shaddox talks with Rajita Sinha, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience at Yale and director of the Yale Stress Center. about how to take control and manage fear during the pandemic ..read more

Putting a loved one in a nursing home is fraught with emotions and a common one is guilt. People are feeling a resurgence of that guilt now that their loved one is at higher risk. Dr. Kirsten Wilkins, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, talks with Colleen Shaddox about strategies you can use to help your elderly relatives – and yourself – cope during the pandemic ..read more

Adolescents want and need to be with peers, so the isolation imposed by the pandemic is especially hard for them. Dr. Megan V. Smith, associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, talks about how parents can support and protect their teenaged children ..read more

COVID-19 has many parents trying to do their jobs from home, supervise their children’s education and provide 24-7 care. Dr. Megan V. Smith, associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, discusses ways to keep parents from feeling overwhelmed in high stress situations ..read more

It’s important to practice physical distancing – but not social distancing. People need connection and belonging. Dr. Megan V. Smith, associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, discusses ways to battle loneliness ..read more

Connecticut has already legalized medical marijuana, and there are several bills working through the legislature to legalize it for recreational use. In eight states, including Massachusetts, recreational pot is already legal. Addiction experts say that it’s important for consumers to understand that just because a drug is legal does not mean that it is harmless ..read more

Nearly 20 percent of Connecticut children live in homes that are food insecure, according to a study by the Connecticut Food Bank and Feeding America. Those children are at higher risk of obesity than their peers. That’s because their families rely on cheap but unhealthy food to fill their grocery carts, because they live in places that don’t offer good opportunities for physical activity, and it is also because their parents are working so many hours, that fast food becomes a major player in the family diet ..read more

Connecticut author Luanne Rice has had depression, probably going back to her days in elementary school. But now she is managing her illness with a combination of therapy, medication and self-care that includes a lot of time spent in nature. Women are about twice as likely to suffer from depression as men. It’s the leading cause of disability worldwide ..read more

This is The Workup, an occasional series of podcasts exploring health issues that concern you. Today we’re talking about kids, migraines and difficulty they sometimes have getting taken seriously ..read more

One in five American children is growing up in poverty. That determines what they eat, where or if they exercise and even whether or not a parent can call 911 in an emergency. Yet most health care providers do not receive in-depth education about how poverty affects children's health. Joanne Goldblum founder and CEO of the New Haven-based National Diaper Bank Network is out to change that ..read more