The report is the CDC’s first complete description of cancer incidence and mortality in rural and urban America.
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Health and lifestyle stories from the Portland Press Herald.
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Racial gap persists in U.S. infant mortality
Black newborns are nearly 2.5 times more likely to die within a year than white infants, research suggests.
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Therapy animals hold promise, experts say, but use your horse sense
There’s not a huge body of evidence showing that emotional support pets effectively eases stress.
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Senate health care bill would roll back funding for women’s services
The Republican proposal makes cuts to Medicaid, for one, which pays for half of all childbirths in the U.S.
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Health care bill concessions made to centrists, conservatives
Senate Republican leaders appear poised to preserve a tax on investment income to save their ACA overhaul.
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Trump nominates needle-exchange advocate to be U.S. surgeon general
Dr. Jerome Adams, an anesthesiologist, has been serving as Indiana’s health commissioner since 2014.
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Analysis: Our health care is a bad example of American exceptionalism
A global view shows that Americans, as a whole, pay more to get less when it comes to medical care.
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Mitch McConnell aims to revise Senate health care bill by Friday
The majority leader is trying to get more Republican lawmakers on board as he tries to get passage before the August recess.
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Opinion podcast: Is a shutdown inevitable; millennial bristles at avocado toast
Greg Kesich and Bill Nemitz recall the 1991 shutdown and how Gov. LePage might take the blame whether he deserves it or not. Plus Letter Writer of the Month returns.
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First Maine case of measles in 20 years confirmed in Farmington area
The person with the highly contagious respiratory disease contracted it overseas, officials said Tuesday.