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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Posted inHealth, Local & State, News, Schools and Education
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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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine inmates should have unrestricted access to menstrual products
For the sake of their health and dignity, women behind bars deserve free, quality pads and tampons.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News, Politics
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.’
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine Legislature is rightly taking on drug costs
Manufacturers are charging top prices to consumers, who have no choice but to pay.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, Politics
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.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Physicians’ cure for HIV isn’t our best shot at fighting AIDS
We must use the tools we already have: drugs that prevent the disease and drugs that treat it.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
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.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Local & State, Politics
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.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: We’ve tried everything else – it’s time for universal health care
Even Maine people with insurance can’t afford to access care, and hospitals are going broke.