Health
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2022
New COVID-19 booster shots coming to Maine
Maine is expected to receive 80,500 doses of new omicron-targeting booster shots within the next 2 weeks.
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PublishedSeptember 1, 2022
U.S. advisers endorse updated COVID-19 shots for fall boosters
The original vaccines still offer strong protection against severe illness and death, especially among younger and healthier people, but those vaccines were designed to target the virus strain that circulated in early 2020.
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PublishedSeptember 1, 2022
Maine playwright channels message about addiction into a musical
Michael Gorman lost his older brother to a drug overdose in 1998 and has been writing about addiction ever since. His latest production will be staged at Augusta's Colonial Theater this weekend.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2022
‘Zombie’ cells emerge as central to the quest for active, vital old age
About 100 companies, plus academic teams, are exploring drugs to target cells that have stopped dividing.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2022
Tea drinkers enjoy possible health benefits, study suggests
Past studies in China and Japan, where green tea is popular, suggested health benefits. The new study extends the good news to black tea.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2022
Marijuana use among young people in U.S. at record high, study says
Nearly 43% of people between the ages of 19 and 30 used cannabis in the past year, according to a report funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2022
Woman sues Vermont over residency requirement for assisted suicide
Vermont's law allowing some terminally ill patients to end their own lives shouldn't apply only to residents, says a Connecticut woman with cancer.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2022
Your 1st brush with coronavirus could affect how a fall booster works
The version of a virus to which we're first exposed can dictate how we respond to later variants and, maybe, how well vaccines work.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2022
Polio in U.S., U.K. and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccine
The polio viruses recently found in the sewer systems of Jerusalem, New York and London were mutated versions of viruses that first originated in vaccines meant to stamp out the paralytic disease.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2022
New study suggests COVID-19 infection increases risks of brain disorders
For people between the ages of 18 and 64, a particularly significant increased risk was of persistent brain fog.
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