“It is essential we try to understand breast implant illness,” said Stephanie Manson Brown, an executive with implant maker Allergan.
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Board of Northern Light Health approves plan to pursue merger
The health-care system’s CEO says joining forces with Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft will preserve access to quality care in rural Piscataquis County.
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Hallowell conservation group weary of growing browntail moth caterpillars population
The Hallowell Conservation Committee is urging residents to clip out potentially hazardous browntail moth caterpillar nests ahead of summer.
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Mumps case reported at York High School
The Maine Center for Disease Control said other students may have been exposed at the high school and at a basketball game at Massabesic High School.
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Mayor Nick Isgro criticized for anti-immigrant tweets from Maine Republican account
In a series of tweets late Thursday night the state party took aim at migrants and the city, falsely connecting immigrants to outbreaks of infectious diseases.
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As lawmakers debate stricter vaccination rules, Falmouth High has pertussis outbreak
Four cases at the school were confirmed in the last two weeks.
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Patients ask Legislature to restrict insurers’ control over medications
But an insurance industry representative argues that a bill to regulate ‘step therapy’ would favor ‘costlier, but no more therapeutically effective, brand name drugs.’
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Hundreds pack hearing on bill to end most exemptions for kids’ vaccinations
The measure would eliminate nonmedical exemptions to vaccinations for measles and other infectious diseases that are required before children enter school.
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New president of Maine Med says hospitals can’t go it alone
Jeffrey Sanders believes collaboration with the community is the key to improving the state’s health care landscape.
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Senate Democrats roll out plan to give Mainers relief from high prescription prices
Party leaders will submit a handful of bills, including one to set up a state commission with oversight authority on drug pricing and another to allow bulk importation from Canada.