Health care
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PublishedJune 17, 2016
Puerto Rico sees spike in number of Zika cases
About 1 percent of the nation's blood donors recently tested positive for Zika.
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PublishedJune 15, 2016
Premiums for low-cost Obamacare plans likely to jump next year
A sampling of markets, including Portland, finds premiums may go up an average of 11 percent, but there are ways to come in under that.
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PublishedJune 14, 2016
FDA approves device that drains calories out of stomach
The device's maker says the system keeps about 30 percent of ingested food from causing weight gain.
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PublishedJune 14, 2016
Robotic advance: Severely injured walk again with exoskeleton
Robotic devices go beyond compensating for lost function to helping to restore it.
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PublishedJune 14, 2016
Study links opioids to fatalities beyond overdoses
The drugs may contribute to heart-related and other deaths, a new study shows.
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PublishedJune 13, 2016
Maine schools’ rate of protection against measles improving
The Maine CDC releases school-by-school vaccination data after a Freedom of Access request by the Portland Press Herald.
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PublishedJune 10, 2016
Cases of infectious disease rise, but data show no clear links to immigrants
Gov. Paul LePage again blames asylum seekers for the increase in Maine, but that can't be confirmed in available public health records.
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PublishedJune 9, 2016
More Americans are dying from accidents each year, report says
Overdoses and accidental poisonings are up 78 percent over a decade, pushing aside car crashes as the top killer in the U.S.
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PublishedJune 7, 2016
For the first time, more than 4 in 10 American women are obese
In recent years, women have surged ahead of men.
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PublishedJune 6, 2016
Price of opioid overdose antidote soars as Maine epidemic rages
The generic equivalent of Narcan – naloxone – has risen in cost up to 17-fold over the past two years.
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