The Maine Health Data Organization’s comparemaine.org site could encourage competitive pricing and help prevent ‘sticker shock.’
Joe Lawlor
Staff Writer
Joe Lawlor writes about health and human services for the Press Herald. A 24-year newspaper veteran, Lawlor has worked in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before relocating to Maine in 2013 to join the Press Herald. He is still considered “from away” but since then, he has learned what a “dooryard” is, eaten “whoopie pies” drank Moxie and boiled some “lobstahs.” The stories he enjoys most are when he learns something and meeting inspiring people.
He lives in South Portland - aka “SoPo” - with his wife, Melanie, and two school-age children.
Posted inFood, Health, News
World Health Organization’s bacon-bashing study is a scare tactic, some say
Comparing meat to cigarettes? Cue the carnivorous critics – but many agree on the need for moderation.
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Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Maine Med lab grows tiny part of a kidney, makes a big scientific advance
A Scarborough team’s research eventually could change the way kidney disease is treated and save thousands of lives.
Posted inBusiness, Health, News
Maine company’s medical devices to be featured in televised brain surgery Sunday
The equipment produced by FHC Inc. of Bowdoin is used in deep brain simulation procedures that can reduce symptoms of Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Spending on MaineCare rides program jumps by $5.4 million
The state cites an increase in the number and cost of rides, while a legislator asks what was gained by a 2013 overhaul that led to thousands of complaints.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Insurers competing for Maine’s Affordable Care Act customers
With open enrollment starting Nov. 1, they offer different price and provider options to attract 75,000 or more Mainers.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Later start times for middle and high schools gaining momentum in southern Maine
Fourteen districts send representatives to a meeting to explore the issue, which has growing support from parents and health care specialists
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Maine CDC director backtracks on endorsement of bill to make vaccine opt-outs harder
Kenneth Albert says a reporter jumped to a conclusion while criticizing the legislation as ‘heavy-handed and unnecessary.’
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Maine CDC director supports strengthening state’s vaccine laws
Kenneth Albert wants to make it harder for parents to opt out, a position that may help the “informed consent” bill survive a possible second veto by the governor in 2017.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Two toddlers were infected by same strain of E. coli, Maine CDC reports
The epidemiologist for the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says it’s likely the boys acquired their illness from the same source, which has yet to be identified.