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Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is set to appear Tuesday in…
Maine Republican lawmakers are blaming years of Democratic healthcare policies for the proposed closure of the labor and delivery unit…
Former Gov. Paul LePage’s congressional campaign fired back Thursday after Democratic candidate Matt Dunlap used a Bangor press conference to…
Sen. Angus King (I) has introduced legislation that would expand access to mental health services in rural areas, including the…
Maine’s Congressional delegation has asked the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to clarify federal guidance that could potentially result in…
Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled to testify Wednesday morning before the…
Dr. Anthony Fauci will return to Capitol Hill this week for what could become one of the most closely watched…
Sen. Susan Collins announced Wednesday that the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee approved with bipartisan support a slate…
Former White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci is returning to Capitol Hill this week under subpoena, where he is…
By allowing the deadline to challenge the Maine Department of Health and Human Services’ finding of a “credible allegation of…
The Penobscot Valley Hospital in Lincoln began warning patients and employees on Tuesday that their personal information may have been…
AUBURN, Maine — Following more hours of testimony from state officials, healthcare providers, city staff, addiction recovery advocates and residents,…
AUGUSTA, Maine — A conservative advocacy organization founded, by state Rep. Laurel Libby, has released a detailed accounting of what…
A sharp increase in illnesses caused by a microscopic intestinal parasite has spread across much of the United States, prompting…
Bangor removed two downtown public restrooms this week after years of misuse by homeless drug users and tens of thousands…
For years, Mainers have been told everything is fine. If you question the direction of the state, you’re accused of…
Leftist Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) weighed in on Maine’s chaotic race on Thursday, reminding the public of Nirav Shah’s role…
After hearing passionate testimony from residents, elected officials and advocates, the Auburn City Council voted Monday night to table a…
The city of Bangor is spending $95,000 on a contract to rent a fleet of six robots to measure sidewalks…
The Auburn City Council is scheduled to consider final approval Monday night of a new ordinance regulating syringe service programs,…
An estimated 627 non-citizen MaineCare recipients are set to lose their taxpayer-funded healthcare on October 1 following changes made by…
A new Preble Street report identified more than 100 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in a single section of Portland, raising…
Communities across Maine have opened cooling centers to provide relief from dangerously high temperatures and humidity expected to continue through…
The City of Portland will activate cooling centers this week as dangerous heat is expected to settle over the city…
Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) was inaccurately telling students in its health science program that they needed to receive a…
In one of the largest malpractice cases ever in Maine, a jury has sided with a victim of alleged hospital…
For the first time this year, a person in Maine has tested positive for the rare tick-borne illness known as…
Lewiston residents have gathered enough signatures to put a referendum question on the ballot to impose stricter rules on the…
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner on Monday received the endorsement of Planned Parenthood and used the occasion to sharpen…
Sen. Susan Collins (R) led a small group of lawmakers in urging Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator…
On her final day as Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released a trove of newly declassified documents and publicly…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) celebrated Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) strong support for her bipartisan push for affordable insulin after the…
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced that it will be completely phasing out the issuance of paper checks by…
AUGUSTA – Maine lawmakers are calling for a formal investigation into the Maine Community Foundation after alleging that millions of…
When the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance challenges you, it’s apparently time to go on a crash diet. So…
The White House released an update on its war against fraud on Tuesday shortly before a press conference from Vice…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Tickborne illnesses are rising sharply across Maine and much of the United States, with state health officials…
The U.S. House scored a victory for parental rights on Wednesday, passing a bill to prevent schools from hiding gender…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) sent a letter to the lawyer representing Gateway Community Services last…
A Maine church has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over alleged interference with members’ use of a hallucinogenic…
The plane that transported an American who tested positive for Ebola made a stop in Maine at Bangor International airport.…
A healthcare fraudster operating out of Massachusetts agreed on Monday to pay back $1.4 million to resolve allegations of Medicare…
The United States Supreme Court has moved to continue allowing women access to mifepristone, a drug used in medication-induced abortions,…
$1 billion in fraud. A non-verbal child found at a mosque. Maine law enforcement told to “stand down” on Chinese…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and Rep. Michele Meyer (D-Maine) announced a $1 million investment of opioid settlement funds on…
Sen. Susan Collins (R) has teamed up with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) to encourage Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner…
The state’s largest halfway-house chain for the mentally ill had just hired a new executive director as a staffer was…
The United States Supreme Court issued an order Monday allowing for women to continue accessing mifepristone, a drug used in…
A new hub for Somali-run home healthcare businesses appears to be taking shape at 100 Larrabee Road in Westbrook, where…
InterMed has announced that it will no longer be accepting Martin’s Point Medicare Advantage plans starting in January of 2027.…
For eight years, the evidence has been piling up in plain view: MaineCare, the state’s $4-billion-and-growing Medicaid behemoth, has become…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at accelerating federal review of psychedelic drugs for…
The Auburn Police Department charged a man with aggravated assault on Tuesday after he allegedly stabbed someone on Goff Street.…
Amid a nationwide reckoning over Medicaid fraud committed largely by “New Americans,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills is taking the unprecedented…
The most recent Massachusetts abortion data revealed that the number of abortions provided in the state more than doubled from…
Applications for Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program opened Monday, allowing Mainers to take up to twelve…
Sen. Susan Collins (R) announced Friday that she was able to preserve $190 million in federal funding for Maine’s rural…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) learned the hard way Friday that President Donald J. Trump was serious about declaring War…
MaineCare auditors attempted to recoup nearly $450,000 from the Somali-run Affinity Homecare, co-located with Rep. Yusuf Yusuf’s (D-Portland) shady Care…
Thanks to the Trump Administration’s unprecedented release of Medicaid claims data, taxpayers may now get insight into how one of…
PORTLAND, Maine — More than a dozen residents at Portland Center for Assisted Living say they have been living with…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has launched TrumpRx.gov, a new federal website pitched as a direct shot at what it…
The United States House of Representatives voted last week to advance a measure already rejected by the Senate that would…
Maine Republicans intensified their attack Tuesday over alleged MaineCare fraud tied to Gateway Community Services, warning that the case exposes…
Gov. Janet Mills (D), a candidate for the U.S. Senate, is trumpeting a $190 million federal health care award for…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) announced Monday that Maine will receive $190 million in first-year funding through the Rural Health…
The Togus Veterans Administration Medical Center is preparing to begin accepting veterans transported by ambulance starting January 1, 2026, after…
Influenza cases are surging across Maine far earlier and harder than health officials typically see, with new data showing infections…
Amid the Mills Administration’s unchecked spending, including thousands of pages and billions of dollars on no-bid contracts, it’s also expending…
A powerful congressional committee is demanding federal financial records tied to a Maine nonprofit that has come under scrutiny following…
Over the past five years, the Maine Attorney General’s Office, led by Aaron Frey (D) has secured more than $260…
The Portland City Council voted unanimously on December 15 to broaden how the city spends its Opioid Settlement Funds, expanding…
MaineHealth is not happy that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took action to prevent hospitals that…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing major changes to federal marijuana and cannabinoid policy, aiming to expand…
Federal prosecutors alleged Thursday that Minnesota may have lost billions of dollars to fraud in its Medicaid program, the latest…
The U.S. House moved to ban transgender surgeries, hormone treatments, and puberty blockers for minors on Wednesday with a narrow,…
Four Republicans serving in the United States House of Representatives broke with party leadership Wednesday to sign onto a Democrat-led…
As Auburn considers adopting an ordinance on “syringe service programs” (SSP) that provide needles to drug addicts, the City Council…
The United States Senate considered two proposals this week to extend the expanded health insurance tax credits first introduced during…
Portland Public Health is expanding targeted outreach efforts after state health officials reported a sharp increase in new HIV diagnoses…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is partnering with Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on new legislation aimed at reshaping Affordable Care…
Democrats on Thursday proposed a three-year extension of the soon-to-expire enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies despite the measure’s near-certain failure to…
The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating Maine’s provision of Medicaid benefits to illegal aliens. But…
A rare and often misunderstood vomiting disorder tied to long-term marijuana use has gained formal recognition from global and U.S.…
A tick-borne virus that, if not caught early and treated, can be deadly may be spreading to New England, officials…
A new story in the Portland Press Herald blaming insurance companies for requiring patients to get permission before a procedure…
A Cumberland County judge is now deciding whether the state can force a longtime street preacher to stay 500 feet…
A sweeping new federal restriction buried deep in Congress’s latest spending bill is poised to wipe out most of America’s…
After many months of negotiations, Northern Light and Anthem have finally agreed upon a new contract, allowing patients to continue…
The public health and safety threat posed by discarded needles used most likely for intravenous drug use has been a…
Maine’s Gov. Janet Mills (D) has again issued a statement urging lawmakers to extend the expanded health insurance tax credits…
A computer system error at MaineHealth resulted in 531 patients being mistakenly notified of their own deaths, the health-care system…
Daughter Jasmine Vincent, image from a friend’s GoFundMe page
One of Maine’s largest abortion care providers will end its primary care services on Friday after a federal court ruled…
Maine has the ninth-highest rate of fatal drug overdoses in the U.S. – and is the only New England state…
At least it gets them off the streets, right? (The needles, that is.) Bangor, Maine is now establishing a needle…
Two Maine towns are telling residents to exercise caution after confirmed cases of rabies were reported in raccoons. The Maine…
With Halloween just a few days away, the latest deadline for Anthem and Northern Light to negotiate a new contract…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) joined 38 other Attorneys General in signing a letter Friday that calls on Congress…