Thousands of Mainers again will be able to get their prescription medication at a discount now that some mail order pharmacies located outside the country can do business here. That had been the case until last summer, when then-Attorney General William Schneider ruled that the Canadian-based CanaRx was not licensed to do business in Maine. […]

A new vaccine is proving remarkably effective against certain sexually transmitted infections in teenage girls. Introduced in 2006, the vaccine protects against dangerous strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer. A study published June 19 by the Journal of Infectious Diseases found that the vaccine cut infection rates among girls ages […]

The Times Record reported that U.S. Sen. Angus King, IMaine, who lives in Brunswick, recently sent a letter to Federal Railroad Administration chief Joseph Szabo requesting that the federal agency “conduct a full, fair and transparent” environmental assessment of the proposed Downeaster layover facility in west Brunswick. The senator’s letter was no doubt inspired by […]

I find it interesting that President Obama seeks to limit the growing anger in Europe over the Snowden revelations by stating that U.S. agencies were simply behaving the same way as intelligence organizations in the rest of the world. This is true, of course, and most intelligence agencies cooperate with the United States and each […]

To the Editor: I offer a modest proposal for a guided congressional retreat to put our leaders back on civil, moral and spiritual footing. Retreats, after all, are common throughout our culture. The focus: the good society and the good life. My proposal is prompted by Harvard political philosopher Michael J. Sandel, one of the […]