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PublishedMarch 20, 2016
Pay raises contrast with performance of Maine’s health care co-op
Maine's Community Health Options members are likely to see significant increases in premiums next year.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2016
Waterville Social Club may close as part of state reconfiguration
The club serves people with mental illnesses and emotional distress.
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PublishedMarch 16, 2016
Maine doctors back 2 bills to restrict opioid prescriptions, but seek flexibility
The measures would set limits on the length of prescriptions for opioid pain relievers, which are addictive and have played a large role in the state's heroin epidemic.
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PublishedMarch 16, 2016
N.H. to investigate pediatric cancer cluster along seacoast
The state is looking into cases of rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of cancer, in Rye, New Castle, Greenland, North Hampton and Portsmouth.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2016
Try other painkillers before prescribing opioids, new federal guidelines say
However, doctors don't have to follow the new recommendations, which are aimed at curbing addiction.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2016
First-ever dissolving heart stent gets FDA review
Abbott Laboratories' Absorb stent, already sold in Europe, is made of a material that's designed to stay intact and release medicine for a year, then break down over the next two years.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2016
The ‘Doc on Dore Hill’ finds success ‘accidentally’ in Athens
Chiropractor Edwin Dunton and his massage therapist wife, Jodi-Ann, will set up shop full time in town after commuting for four years on weekends from Massachusetts.
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PublishedMarch 11, 2016
Fairfield seeks balance between medical marijuana grower, unhappy neighbors
A registered caregiver growing pot in a house on High Street is at the center of a discussion of whether the town can restrict where medical marijuana is grown.
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PublishedMarch 8, 2016
Double mastectomies for women with cancer in one breast might not be a good idea
Researchers find that removing the second breast often fails to improve quality of life.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2016
Maine seeks new rules for prescribing opioids as way to combat heroin crisis
The LePage administration's bill would require doctors to use a prescription monitoring program that's now voluntary, and limit the supply of opiates for chronic pain to 15 days.
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