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By Arielle Levin Becker
The Hartford Courant
January 27, 2010
State legislators killed the governor's proposal late last year to postpone $10 million in stem cell research grants scheduled to be awarded to scientists this spring.
But with a looming budget deficit, the state Department of Public Health has pushed back this round of stem cell funding, at least until lawmakers reach a resolution on the budget. The department received about 90 applications for stem cell grants but will wait to begin the peer review process that helps determine which proposals receive funding.
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By Nancy Thompson
Hartford Magazine, December 2009
Bruce Gould was driving home from a meeting in Farmington one rainy fall evening when he noticed an elderly woman with a cane walking along the side of the road.
Gould, a physician and associate dean for primary care at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the medical director of the Burgdorf/Fleet Health Center in Hartford’s North End, pulled over. “Excuse me, ma’am, but can I help you?” he recalled asking.
Her response amazed him.
The woman, whom Gould described as “not walking all that well,” had taken a bus from her home in Danbury and was walking from the Farmington bus station to UConn Health Center. She was planning to sleep in the cafeteria that night so she could keep an early-morning appointment at the center's dental clinic.
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