The average cost of an online, remote screening for COVID-19 was $55 in the state.
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Flu season begins this month, but questions remain for what’s ahead
Typically cases peak in December or January, but the pandemic over the last two years has made Maine’s flu season anything but typical.
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UNE medical school’s move to Portland will allow it to grow and train more doctors
Construction on the school’s $93 million home could begin next month, and Maine’s only medical college could make the move to Portland in 2024.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Audrey Evans, pioneering researcher of childhood cancer, dies at 97
She was the first to accurately diagnose neuroblastoma, the most common type of cancer in infants, and co-founded the first Ronald McDonald House.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Older Mainers paved way for Inflation Reduction Act’s health care savings
While we’re celebrating the law’s achievements, let’s remember the invaluable activism of one group of outspoken Mainers.
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Westbrook’s Rock Row starts next phase of development with medical campus
The multiuse Rock Row complex already includes many retail businesses, but is beginning the next step toward a 2.7 million-square-foot footprint.
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Health care workers appeal dismissal of lawsuit over Maine’s vaccine mandate
Seven Maine health care workers are taking their case to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, after a federal judge dismissed their case in August.
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Maine CDC investigating COVID-19 outbreaks at 26 long-term care facilities in the state
One outbreak is at Woodlands Senior Living of Waterville and involves 27 residents and four staff, according to the Maine CDC.
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Tom Purcell: Health care confusion
I’m confused. I got the flu a few months ago, the worst flu I’d ever had. It wasn’t COVID — I have never tested positive for COVID — but it was a humdinger. For more than a week, I was a lump on a bed, completely unable to move or do anything. To make sure […]
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A line is drawn between protesters, patients outside Planned Parenthood in Portland
If protesters cross it, a new state law makes them vulnerable to incarceration and fines.