Health care
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PublishedNovember 27, 2018
Affordable Care Act enrollment drops sharply in Maine
Early enrollment figures show a decline of more than 30 percent compared with a year ago.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2018
LePage requests stay of judge’s order to implement Medicaid expansion
The governor, who has consistently fought any growth in the Medicaid program, files the motion just five weeks before Gov.-elect Janet Mills is expected to implement expansion upon taking office.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2018
American Red Cross faces blood shortage
The Red Cross aims to have a five-day supply on hand, but has less than a three-day supply now.
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PublishedNovember 25, 2018
Medical device to treat pain shocks, burns patients
Electric stimulators are more dangerous than many patients know, an investigation finds.
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PublishedNovember 21, 2018
LePage plans to appeal court order for immediate steps to expand Medicaid
Justice Michaela Murphy says the governor can't ignore the will of the people who passed the law extending health care coverage to as many as 80,000 low-income Mainers.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2018
L.L. Bean’s Gorman family donates $4 million for new lobby in Maine Med expansion
The lobby will be named after former Bean president Leon Gorman, and the donation toward a modern medical services facility is a gift 'to the people of Maine,' his widow says.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2018
Why a salmonella outbreak shouldn’t ruin your Thanksgiving
The bacteria is widespread in poultry but cooking meat thoroughly will kill it.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2018
Mills administration to consider keeping Maine-based emergency preparedness system
A spokesman for the incoming governor says the $700,000 contract to send the work to a North Carolina company will be reviewed.
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PublishedNovember 15, 2018
FDA unveils sweeping effort to reduce vaping and smoking by minors
The agency targets e-cigarettes, flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes.
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PublishedNovember 15, 2018
Head of emergency system for Maine health facilities aims to stop outsourcing
Paul Weiss says the state's unexplained move to hire a North Carolina company could put Mainers at risk because there's no transition plan.
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