Our View: Deaths of working-age people are a public health crisis

Suicide, overdose, alcoholism and obesity are among the preventable causes of death that are lowering life expectancy in Maine.

Hospital receives funds for obesity study

Maine Med’s research institute awarded $1.3 million NIH grant to study obesity

The federal grant will be used to conduct of a study of a specific type of gene in hopes of developing new ways to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes