Educators say kids, especially boys, who have trouble sitting still in kindergarten are more apt to get the diagnosis.
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First-ever dissolving heart stent gets FDA review
Abbott Laboratories’ Absorb stent, already sold in Europe, is made of a material that’s designed to stay intact and release medicine for a year, then break down over the next two years.
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California right-to-die law gets June go-ahead
As of June 9, people who are terminally ill in the state can legally hasten their deaths with doctor-prescribed drugs.
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Double mastectomies for women with cancer in one breast might not be a good idea
Researchers find that removing the second breast often fails to improve quality of life.
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Maine medical board criticized for procedures in Falmouth psychiatrist case
Medical ethics experts say the practice of considering a complaint against a doctor without reviewing that doctor’s history undermines patient safety.
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Medical wand envisioned to send data like magic
Patients won’t have to be computer wizards to use the device to transmit information to doctors.
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Google working to help Brazil track Zika virus
Google engineers and their UNICEF counterparts create a system to predict where the Aedes aegypti mosquito might next be active.
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First mumps case reported in Maine since 2013
Maine health officials are exploring whether the case – in a student at the University of Southern Maine – is linked to cases at a college in New Hampshire.
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In battle against heroin, Maine seeks new rules for prescribing opioids
The LePage administration’s bill would require doctors to use a prescription monitoring program that’s now voluntary, and limit the supply of opiates for chronic pain to 15 days.
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Falmouth psychiatrist put on probation after patient’s suicide
The mother of a patient who committed suicide by overdose says the doctor, who had lost his medical license in other states, over-prescribed drugs and got away with it.