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Too many kids are exposed to lead in these Maine towns
Many more Maine children are considered at high risk for lead poisoning under updated rules that are prompting an increase in home inspections. In September, Maine implemented new guidelines for lead...
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This is Maine’s most Googled health problem
Much to our doctors’ chagrin, many of us first turn to Google when we have a question about a health issue. A computer user posing in front of a Google search page. Francois Glories | REUTERS Sometimes...
View ArticleCheck how many parents are skipping vaccines at your kid’s Maine school
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention released updated data this week showing vaccination rates by school. Use this tool to search elementary schools by town and view the percentage of...
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Will Maine teens really stop smoking under our new tobacco law?
Now that you have to be at least 21 to buy cigarettes in Maine, can we expect teenagers to add “quit smoking” to their summer bucket lists? Maybe not, but evidence indicates that the change in the law...
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Maine research raises doubts about how doctors choose antibiotics to treat...
Researchers at the University of New England are raising some provocative questions about the process doctors rely on to select antibiotics for their patients. They just published their findings in a...
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Mosquitoes are spreading yet another disease in Maine
Maine health officials just confirmed that a relatively rare disease carried by mosquitoes has sickened two more people. No, it’s not West Nile virus. Or Eastern Equine Encephalitis. This one is called...
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Daunted by ‘super lice,’ Maine parents turn to professional nitpickers
Mary Collar took a break from running her busy salon this week to tell me about a client who’d arrived exasperated and desperate for her services. It wasn’t a woman with a bad dye job. Or a guy...
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If Maine’s opioid law is working, why so many overdoses?
Yesterday we learned that drug overdoses continue to kill an average of more than one person a day in Maine. A press release from Maine Attorney Janet Mills’ office stated that between January and...
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Who’s really covered by MaineCare — and who isn’t
AUGUSTA, MAINE — 01/08/14 — A woman holds a sign at a rally and lobby day organized by the Maine Peoples Alliance at the State House in Augusta around the issue of Medicaid expansion. Troy R. Bennett |...
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Thousands of Maine kids rely on this health insurance with an uncertain future
While everyone was busy debating the Affordable Care Act last week, the future of another far less controversial health program fell into doubt. Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program,...
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