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Is federal Medicaid spending, which last year amounted to over $580 billion, a virtual sacred cow for which reform or…
Just two weeks after Waldo County Hospital closed its maternity and birthing unit citing declining birth rates, on Monday Rep.…
Maine State Rep. Michelle Meyer (D-Eliot) introduced legislation in February, and carried over into the current emergency session last month,…
The Portland Police Department say they grappling with an “alarming” surge in drug overdoses, reporting very recent eight cases in…
The ranking Republican lawmakers on the Maine Legislature’s Appropriations Committee have come out against a bill that would increase MaineCare…
A northern Maine nonprofit has accused the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) of violating state procurement policies…
A female surgeon who proudly helped shatter the military glass ceiling did so while surreptitiously closeting gay women such as…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has joined a coalition of twenty-three states in suing Department of Health and Human Services…
A new bill from Rep. Gary Drinkwater (R-Milford) could give Mainers a better sense of how much of their tax…
The White House withdrew the nomination of President Donald Trump’s pick for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
Northern Light Inland Hospital and its associated Waterville clinics are slated to be shut down and will halt patient care…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey celebrated a settlement with Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC that will cap Mainers’ insulin costs at $35…
Maine State Senator and former House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Cumberland) has introduced a bill that would extend taxpayer-funded prescription…
So-called “gender-affirming” surgeries significantly increase the rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse compared to gender-dysphoric people without…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at “making America healthy again,” requiring increased disclosure from healthcare providers…
Nearly 30 percent of Maine’s government-run school districts will conceal children’s health information from parents as it relates to gender…
The amount of money taxpayers are spending on Suboxone prescriptions for individuals enrolled in MaineCare has surged to $26.2 million…
Joanne O’Brien, a far-left Maine MSAD 11 School Board member overseeing public education in Gardiner, has garnered nationwide attention in…
As Maine faces an impending half-billion dollar budget shortfall, and Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) considers a flurry of tax increases…
The Maine Department of Public Safety, through the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (MEMS), has announced the availability of $1…
Maine’s Department of Education (DOE) issued a statement on Tuesday opposing President Donald Trump’s day-one executive order that officially acknowledges…
President Donald Trump officially withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO) and cut all funding for the international…
Northern Light Health, the nonprofit that operates some of Maine’s largest health care providers, is bringing back COVID-19 Era mask…
Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) proposed a bill on Thursday that would prevent people on welfare from using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday announced that they have authorized the marketing of a wide array…
Even as Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) is looking to close Maine’s yawning $450 million FY 26-27 budget gap and…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Wednesday it will ban Red No. 3, a common artificial food dye linked…
Last week, Maine Gov. Janet Mills warned of a $118 million gap in MaineCare funding — a shortfall that appears…
A federal court in Kentucky has blocked the Biden Administration’s effort to redefine the term “sex” in Title IX to…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized new regulations on Tuesday, prohibiting credit reporting agencies and lenders from considering medical…
Over the past few years, Maine’s child welfare system has come under fire for its failure to protect the state’s…
H5N1 bird flu has been making headlines sporadically throughout 2024, fueling fears of another, deadlier, COVID-style pandemic. On Thursday, the…
Rep. Josh Morris (R-Turner) has formally submitted a bill that, if passed, would repeal the state’s new payroll tax—set to…
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), a medical doctor and staunch ally of President-elect Donald Trump, put forward a bill last…
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday morning in a case out of Tennessee concerning bans on the…
As Maine Wire reporter Edward Tomic detailed on Friday, agents from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF)…
The Mills administration has allocated funds to extend pediatric behavioral health programs run by MaineHealth for an additional year that…
A handful of pediatricians who perform sex-change procedures on children led a successful pressure campaign to push a major transgender…
President-elect Donald Trump continues to send shockwaves through Washington, D.C., and American politics as his proposed cabinet picks bring into…
Transgender activist and medical doctor Johanna Olson-Kennedy intentionally delayed and continues to withhold the publication of a $9.7 million taxpayer-funded…
Monthly abortion numbers grew dramatically in the first six months of 2024, according to a report released Tuesday by the…
Vice President Kamala Harris mocked two Christian student protestors for shouting “Christ is King” during an event at the University…
A new database from Do No Harm has revealed the number of children across Maine who have undergone gender transition…
The Maine State Board of Nursing suspended the medical license of nurse Matthew Clifford Field after he allegedly sexually harassed…
Kate Guenther | The Center Square (The Center Square) – Sex reassignment procedures and surgeries on children have gained national…
In a win for religious freedom, a federal judge has ruled that the government cannot force Catholic employers to pay…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) announced on Tuesday that a Maine resident has tested positive…
The federal Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued the State of Maine for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act…
Northern Light Health — one of the largest medical service providers in the state — has decided to end its…
Years after COVID-19 pandemic restrictions were abolished across the country, and the political push for vaccine mandates subsided, Maine’s Center…
During a Sunday interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Vice Presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) promised that former…
The price Mainers will pay for tobacco-free nicotine pouches, a popular alternative to chewing tobacco and cigarettes, has begun to…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared monkeypox an international public health emergency for the second time in two…
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has become the first major American medical association to express opposition to the controversial…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has been awarded more than $500,000 to help improve healthcare in…
Maine has the seventeenth most underprivileged children nationwide with the sixth worst health, according to a recent study by WalletHub.…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed a rule that would remove medical debt from most credit reports. The…
Northern New England top abortion clinic operator — which covers Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont — is projecting an $8.6…
The Mills administration is set to spend $130,000 on a taxpayer-funded public service announcement (PSA) campaign pushing Maine parents to…
The left-wing Commonwealth Fund has released its annual “State Scorecard on Women’s Health and Reproductive Care,” in which Maine earned…
A nationwide search of prospective candidates who might turnaround the struggling Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has…
During a recent hearing on the national security risks of funding virus research like gain-of-function at labs such as Wuhan…
Starting in 2025, all medical providers who are working with a patient to help them apply for Medicare coverage will…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced on Tuesday that it will give $176 million in taxpayer…
Since the 1990s, low-income and Medicare patients have depended on the 340B program to pay for drugs and medications at discounted…
Finland is set to become the first country in the world to begin vaccinating humans against the possibility of an…
The Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention (Maine CDC) is looking to spend $200,000 on a marketing campaign focused…
The Supreme Court is set to consider the constitutionality of state restrictions on certain forms of “gender-affirming care” for minors.…
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) filed a lawsuit against Pfizer on Monday, accusing the massive pharmaceutical company of misleading…
The Supreme Court released a unanimous opinion Thursday morning rejecting an effort to roll back the Food and Drug Administration’s…
By Steve Robinson and Edward Tomic Maine’s taxpayer-funded “harm reduction” specialists call it “boofing” or “booty dumping,” but those are…
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the largest court of appeals in the country, and one which is often…
Since 2020, the City of Portland’s Syringe Service Program has distributed thousands more hypodermic needles annually than were collected, according…
Sen. Angus King (I) and Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) have co-signed a letter raising concerns about a recently-approved federal regulation…
A Falmouth woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against her health insurance company, claiming that it illegally discriminated against her…
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) sentenced Paulette Harlow, age 75, to a 24-month prison term for her role…
A new study from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam suggests that government responses to COVID-19 and the mRNA injections marketed…
Former Chief Medical Advisor to the U.S. President Anthony Fauci, who headed the nationwide response to the COVID-19 outbreak under…
The United Kingdom has announced a new emergency ban on puberty blockers for minors, a decision that follows less strict…
A new study conducted by the University of Texas Medical Branch has revealed that sex-change surgeries increase the risk of…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) has co-sponsored a bill that aims to allow the time spent in a hospital under…
A proposed amendment to the state’s constitution that would have enshrined a right to abortion and other forms of “reproductive…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (Maine DHHS) on Friday issued a request to waive competitive bidding on…
Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew will be stepping down from her position at the…
President Joe Biden announced on Friday that he will be allowing some illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded medical welfare under…
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week concerning whether or not federal law can be understood as requiring doctors…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is calling for increased regular testing for HIV statewide for…
Lawmakers in Augusta have approved legislation changing how medical debt is handled in the State of Maine. LD 2115 —…
The Maine House of Representatives voted late Wednesday evening to advance a bill that would institute legal protections for those…
Lawmakers in Augusta have scrapped a bill that would have legalized the possession of illicit drugs, including opioids, swapping it…
A proposed amendment enshrining abortion in Maine’s state constitution failed Wednesday to gain enough support for final passage in the…
Former Republican President Donald Trump announced his stance Monday on abortion and fertility treatments in advance of the 2024 presidential…
The Vatican on Monday released a document condemning transgender surgeries, gender theory and surrogacy as “grave violations” of human dignity,…
The Democratic effort to amend Maine’s Constitution to protect the abortion industry is on life-support after failing to get a…
The City of Portland has released a 2023 Year in Review Homeless Services report detailing the city’s response to the…
Lawmakers in Augusta are considering a bill that has the potential to change how medical debt is handled in the…
Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has been providing worst-in-the-nation child welfare services, regularly making headlines for tragic…
The death of Oklahoma high schooler who identified as “non-binary” caused an uproar among left-wing activists and media, with many…