Imposing longer prison sentences for possessing smaller amounts of drugs represents a shift in states that in recent years have rolled back drug possession penalties.
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Health and lifestyle stories from the Portland Press Herald.
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Biogen ALS drug may have treatment effect, FDA staff says
More drugmakers are targeting incurable diseases like ALS, often forcing the FDA to grapple with difficult questions of whether to clear medicines backed by questionable data for desperate patients.
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How to shop for new insurance if you lose Medicaid coverage
States will start cutting people from the government-funded plans when they no longer qualify based on income.
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Senior care is crushingly expensive. Boomers aren’t ready.
An estimated 18 million middle-income baby boomers will not have enough to pay for care for moderate to severe needs, according to one analysis.
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Long-COVID symptoms are less common now than earlier in the pandemic
The findings also show that patients with certain underlying medical conditions have twice the odds as previously healthy people of seeking care for long COVID.
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Kentucky lawmakers pass ban on youth gender-affirming care
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear can veto it, but the Legislature would be able to override his decision.
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Cases of a tick-borne disease rising sharply in Maine, CDC says
Only Vermont had a steeper increase in cases of babesiosis from 2011 to 2019, according to a new study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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U.S. pregnancy deaths dropped in 2022, after COVID spike
Officials say the 2022 maternal death rate is on track to get close to pre-pandemic levels. But that’s not great: The rate before COVID-19 was the highest it had been in decades.
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Chinese SARS whistleblower Jiang Yanyong dies at 91
The military doctor revealed the full extent of the 2003 SARS outbreak and was later placed under house arrest for his political outspokenness.
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In nursing homes, impoverished residents live final days on pennies
A half-century-old bit of American bureaucracy is leaving hundreds of thousands of nursing home residents in an unthinkable bind: Living on as little as $30 a month.