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The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled 6-3 on Wednesday to uphold a Tennessee ban on transgender surgeries and drugs for…
By Chad Grignon Ask any Maine business owner, and they’ll tell you one of the hardest parts of operating in…
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday in co-sponsoring his bill, the “End Prescription Drug Ads…
If the closings of birthing units at multiple Maine hospitals were not enough of a red flag signaling the downward…
Two law enforcement sources, who spoke with the Maine Wire on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized…
Both chambers of the Maine Legislature reversed course on a controversial bill this week, ending an effort from Rep. Grayson…
Lawmakers have unanimously agreed to prevent medical debt from being factored into Mainers’ credit scores. Although State Law currently has…
The Satanic Temple’s abortion branch, TST Health, announced the creation of a new telehealth abortion provider serving Maine, deliberately set…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) on Friday issued a press release celebrating a record high…
Maine’s House of Representatives narrowly voted to decriminalize the possession of one ounce or less of psilocybin for persons 21…
The Opportunity Alliance, a homeless and substance abuse service provider based in South Portland, has agreed to a nearly $350,000…
Maine lawmakers appear poised to reject a bill directing the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to reimburse hospitals…
Four years ago, a founder of Maine Stands Up addressed a standing room only crowd in a Topsham church during…
The Mount Desert Island (MDI) Hospital is taking disciplinary action against five nurses who participated in a Maine State Nurses…
Civic, law enforcement, legislative leaders and subject matter experts will hold a conference in Brewer on Friday evening to discuss…
The Maine House passed a bill on Tuesday that will allow providers of chemical abortion pills, such as mifepristone, to…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held a public hearing on Friday for a “common sense and natural order” bill…
More than 2,100 allegations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation were reported in fiscal year 2024 among adults with intellectual disabilities…
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Former employees of Gateway Community Services, a migrant-run social services agency with offices throughout Maine, have alleged in interviews with…
The Mills Administration’s spending via state contracts has come under increasing scrutiny in light of Democratic State Auditor Matt Dunlap’s…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has selected Lewiston’s Maine Resiliency Center to…
Rep. Laurie Osher (D-Orono) presented a bill before the Committee on Housing and Urban Development on Tuesday that would establish…
A bill repealing the prohibition against charging uninsured patients for COVID-19 vaccinations that received unanimous support in the Legislature became…
Maine Attorney General (AG) Aaron Frey has joined a group of twenty attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against Secretary…
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda is moving…
Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program was the center of sustained attention Wednesday afternoon in Augusta as…
Maine’s Democrat-controlled legislature has approved a measure that will create a $12M fund for the benefit of Maine’s abortion clinic…
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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…