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Can’t decide what to get the millennial on your gift list this Christmas? Here’s something that will help them create meaningful connections when they’re not able to see family and friends.

Deborah Krevalin, LPC, LMHC, from the West Hartford Holistic Counseling Center, explained.

Gene Wilder, the frizzy-haired actor who brought his deft comedic touch to such unforgettable roles as the neurotic accountant in “The Producers” and the deranged animator of “Young Frankenstein,” has died. He was 83. Wilder’s nephew said Monday that the actor and writer died late Sunday at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, from complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Chef Fitz Tallon from Eataly NYC shows you how to carve a turkey.

The next time you get sick, your care may involve a form of the technology people use to navigate road trips or pick the right vacuum cleaner online. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making predictions to guide care or help patients. It...

“Sesame Street” is taking a new step to try to help kids navigate life in America — it’s tackling the opioid crisis. Sesame Workshop is exploring the backstory of Karli, a bright green, yellow-haired friend of Elmo’s whose mother is battling addiction. The initiative is part of the Sesame Street in Communities resources available online. “Sesame Street” creators said they...

It can be hard to keep smiles healthy in rural areas, where dentists are few and far between and residents often are poor and lack dental coverage. Efforts to remedy the problem have produced varying degrees of success. The biggest obstacle? Dentists.

Xavier Soto has been desperately looking for answers since his 23-year-old partner, Jeimily Morales, died last June at a hospital in Puerto Rico, nine days after the pair returned from a vacation to the Dominican Republic. Soto, 27, believes Morales, the mother of a 4-year-old boy, was in good health during their trip in the neighboring Caribbean island. She had...

The 33-year-old former Amazon software engineer accused of hacking Capital One made little attempt to hide her attack. In fact, she effectively publicized it. It’s one of many riddles swirling around Paige Thompson, who goes by the online handle “erratic.” Well-known in Seattle’s hacker community, Thompson has lived a life of tumult, with frequent job changes, reported estrangement from family...

A Danbury mother describes the terrifying moment when a glider crashed into the roof of her family home Tuesday.

“I just go to the gym and juggle. Just a way to escape everything,” Barry Goldmeier said. He’s one of thousands of government employees furloughed during the shutdown. News4’s Shomari Stone spoke to a therapist about other ways furloughed workers can cope with the stress.

Whenever Brittany Hawley went to class, her loyal service dog Griffin was there. If she needed her cell phone, Griffin would fetch it. Even when she assisted patients as part of an internship, Griffin was there helping out as well. So it’s only fitting that when Hawley receives her master’s degree in occupational therapy from Clarkson University next month, Griffin...

Commissioners investigating the causes of the Parkland school massacre heavily criticized the actions of a sheriff’s deputy assigned to the school campus, calling him a coward for not confronting the gunman.

In an interview on the “Today” show on Thursday, the 33-year-old recalls his mental health struggles. At his lowest point, in October 2014, soon after a DUI arrest that led to a rehab stint, Phelps was so depressed he did not leave his room for several days and even contemplated suicidal.

Chest tightening. Uncontrollable shaking. Feeling like you’re breathing through a tiny straw. These are just some of the ways that 17-year-old Zach Crites experiences anxiety. Crites’ mom, Allison Heber, noticed that he had a higher level of anxiety when he was in elementary school. “His attendance in elementary school was abysmal,” Heber told TODAY. “And it was because he would...

During an interview with Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz for the Child Mind Institute, Stone discussed having her first panic attack and how that “terrifying” moment repeated itself over the next few years.

He let his anger flare repeatedly, interrupted his questioners and cried several times during his opening statement. She strived to remain calm and polite, despite her nervousness, and mostly held back her tears. Throughout their riveting, nationally televised testimony on Thursday, Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh served as Exhibits A and B for a tutorial on gender roles and...

Upon leaving Cedars-Sinai hospital last week, Demi Lovato immediately entered rehab for addiction treatment and now, a source tells E! News, “She will be in rehab for several months and is doing an extensive program to ensure she gets the help she needs.” The 25-year-old is currently in Chicago, where she is undergoing treatment with a therapist who focuses on...

Somehow it doesn’t seem right for Jerry Springer to exit quietly.
There should be one last thrown chair or a bleep-filled tirade, at the very least. Instead, it was announced with no fanfare this week that he will stop making new episodes of his memorably raucous talk show, and neither Springer nor his bosses will talk about it.

A clinical psychologist hired by Travis Air Force Base in California to help military veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder has been arrested and charged with raping patients.