How to Identify Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke

CT doctor warns of danger in heat and humidity. State to see very hot days.

Illness from heat and humidity is a real thing. With those weather conditions forecast in the next few days in Connecticut and sure to resurface as summer approaches, a doctor with Yale New Haven Health has offered tips to prevent illnesses such heat exhaustion and heat stroke that can land people in the Emergency Department. Hospital of St. Raphael campus, Yale New New Haven Health System, Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn. Accuweather predicts a …

How to identify heat exhaustion and heat stroke

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Time Machine: Keeping it hot…or not

In todays’ Time Machine, we are taking a look back at a paper written by Dr. Henry Gray Barbour during his time in the Department of Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine. Published in Physiological Reviews in 1921, his paper examined how body heat is regulated in various species. In this review, Dr. Barbour explains that water is the best medium for conducting heat throughout the body. This is […]

In the Heat of the Day...

SOUTHWEST—It’s the heat that defines us this month. It greets us at daybreak with its promise, but in an hour or so, it bears down on our shoulders and makes us dream of shade and something cold to drink. The best thing about our hot season, however, are evenings when most of the earth cools, and that breeze slides in off the mesa and caresses our cheeks. Then it’s time to sit, and laugh, and tell stories and just be with someone we love. Then i…