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Health and lifestyle stories from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Maine DEP issues air quality alert for Wednesday and Thursday
The department recommends that people along Maine’s coast consider limiting strenuous outdoor activities if they are susceptible to the effects of air pollution.
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Posted inHealth, Maine, News, Schools and Education
Maine’s only medical school to expand in new home
The University of New England medical school will be moving from Biddeford into a new, $90 million building in Portland.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Maine, News
Opportunity Alliance to pay nearly $350,000 in settlement related to drug tests
The Department of Justice says the nonprofit social services organization submitted ineligible reimbursement requests for drug testing at its Morrison Place site in Portland from 2018-21.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News, Politics
Gov. Mills warns that federal Medicaid cuts would directly harm Mainers
As the Trump administration’s sweeping budget and policy bill moves to the Senate this week, Gov. Janet Mills used a radio address to repeat her concerns about the budget cuts’ potential impacts on health care in Maine.
Posted inHealth, Maine
Maine community paramedicine in doubt after federal cuts
The programs, in which EMS workers make home visits to patients, have helped curb expensive hospital visits, providers say.
Posted inHealth, Maine
Maine health experts still recommend children, pregnant women get COVID-19 vaccine
This conflicts with guidance from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine advocate, who is recommending that healthy children and pregnant women not get COVID-19 shots.
Posted inHealth, Leslie Bridgers, Maine
She always wanted to come to Maine. A diagnosis meant now or never.
Hearing her story, Mainers stepped up to make the trip extra special.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Maine
Bridgton medical center closing, citing financial pressures on health care system
DFD Russell Medical Center say low reimbursement rates from both government and private insurance, workforce shortages and an inability to rely on federal funding through Medicare and Medicaid make the operation unsustainable.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Kennebunk doctor appeals verdict in overprescribing case
Dr. Merideth Norris was found guilty last year on 15 counts of writing unauthorized prescriptions to 5 patients.