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Health

Published
August 26, 2024

Maine hospitals launch green initiatives to offset high energy use

The changes at Northern Light Health and MaineHealth include discontinuing certain anesthetic gases and pivoting to renewable heating sources.
Published
August 25, 2024

Deadly mosquito virus has Massachusetts towns urging people to stay in at night

The spread is rare, but serious: about 30% of people with the virus die, and many survivors have ongoing neurological problems.
Published
August 25, 2024

Brunswick Landing is Maine’s biggest firefighting foam spill in 30 years

Maine has tried before to find out how much of this toxic substance is out there, or if it's safely stored, but efforts have been largely ignored. Officials say they need lawmakers' approval before they can make changes.
Published
August 24, 2024

Fauci hospitalized with West Nile virus, now recovering at home

Fauci was hospitalized for six days before he returned home from the hospital this week.
Published
August 23, 2024

Government announces more COVID-19 tests can be ordered through mail for no cost

The announcement also comes as the government is once again urging people to get an updated COVID-19 booster, ahead of the fall and winter respiratory virus season.

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Published
August 22, 2024

FDA approves updated COVID-19 vaccines, shots should be available in days

While most Americans have some degree of immunity from prior infections or vaccinations or both, that protection wanes.
Published
August 22, 2024

U.S. report says fluoride at twice the recommended limit linked to lower IQ in kids

Some of the studies reviewed in the report suggested IQ was 2 to 5 points lower in children who'd had higher exposures.
Published
August 21, 2024

West Nile virus detected in bird in Portland

Maine officials have reported finding the mosquito-borne virus in a number of animals around the state this summer.
Published
August 17, 2024

Congo’s humanitarian crisis helped mpox spiral again into a global health emergency

A humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo is contributing to mpox outbreaks there and elsewhere in Africa that have been deemed a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
Published
August 16, 2024

Palestinian health officials say first case of polio confirmed in Gaza, in a 10-month-old child

The Palestinian health ministry says it has recorded the first case of polio in an unvaccinated 10-month old-child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah