Years after COVID-19 pandemic restrictions were abolished across the country, and the political push for vaccine mandates subsided, Maine’s Center…
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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…
All four members of Maine’s Congressional delegation have reached out to the federal government for an update regarding a proposed…
The Sanford Police Department are calling on the public to carry Narcan — an opioid overdose reversal drug — and…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey says he is “dismayed” at the condemnation of a proposed bill that would expand legal…
Health care providers in the United Kingdom will stop routinely prescribing puberty blockers to minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced Friday that it received more than $2 million in federal…
As the debate over transgender school policies and sex-change procedures for minors has played out nationwide and in Maine, a…
An effort by Democratic state lawmakers to establish Maine as a “sanctuary state” for child sex-change procedures and late-term abortions…
Leaked internal documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the leading global medical body behind developing “standards…
Lawmakers in Augusta held a public hearing Tuesday for a bill that would institute legal protections for those seeking or…
Following a mysterious cyberattack, Maine pharmacies have been instructed to fill prescriptions of MaineCare members without the ability to verify…
HEARING – Tuesday @ 1:00 pm – Cross Building Room 220 Maine lawmakers will consider Tuesday a proposal to drastically…
Several large Maine hospitals are not in compliance with federal transparency rules regarding online pricing and services information, according to…
A Maine Department of Health and Human Services (Maine DHHS) caseworker allegedly used her position to extort sex from a…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has come under scrutiny for his pilot program to give pre-paid debit cards…
An Illinois Democrat is pushing for a bill that would amend the definition of child abuse to make it a…
A new report from a group of transgender ideology activists has published survey data that conflicts sharply with a recently…
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments last week concerning the imposition of vaccine mandates on emergency medical technicians…
Maine state legislators are continuing efforts to improve sexual assault kit testing in the state, as kits continue to go…
Maine’s child welfare system has frequently come under fire in recent months for its failure to protect the state’s most…
Editor’s Note: Following the publication of this story, a public affairs professional from Maine Health contacted the Maine Wire asking…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has joined twenty-three other governors in submitting an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court…
A new study from Definitive Healthcare shows that from 2018-2022 the number of people suffering from gender dysphoria in Maine…
Many Mainers turned out to the State House Monday to make their voices heard at the Judiciary Committee’s public hearing…
On Monday, the White House issued two statements commemorating what would have been the 51st anniversary of Roe V. Wade,…
On Monday, January 22, lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing for a proposed amendment to Maine’s…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced Thursday that it will be making “structural changes” to the…
Healthcare costs in Maine, already higher than most other states, are continuing to increase, and a D.C.-based center-left think tanks…
Maine’s Board of Licensure in Medicine (BOLIM) on Tuesday extended the suspension of Dr. Meryl Nass, an Ellsworth internist who…
One of Maine’s largest healthcare providers threatened to terminate the employment of as many as 500 employees who had not…
The Director of Maine’s Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS) — Todd Landry — has resigned amidst scrutiny over…
A report published last week by the left-wing dark money-funded think tank the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) advocates…
Several brands of cinnamon apple sauce pouches — typically served to children — have been recalled by the federal Food…
In this column I have devoted most of this space to drawing attention to ways in which state government has…
Democratic leaders on the Legislative Council opted Thursday to kill a bill that would have prohibited the sale of fetal…
The Maine State Legislature next year will consider establishing a “Civil Rights Unit” to educate the public on hate and…
Republican Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby of Auburn announced Monday that she has submitted a bill proposal for the second…
Earlier this year, the State Legislature passed one of the least restrictive abortion laws in the nation — as of…
A Brunswick pastor preaching outside Portland’s Planned Parenthood abortion clinic Tuesday was told by police that he was violating the…
York County now has plans to spend $45 million in an effort to address Maine’s opioid epidemic through the construction…
Maine State Rep. Ann Fredericks (R-Sanford) has submitted a request for a resolution in the second legislative session that would…
Parents across Maine have been left confused in recent days by their children receiving Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards in…
Maine Sen. Angus King and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.) earlier this week introduced a bipartisan resolution to designate…
The Portland City Council will host a second public workshop Tuesday on possible policy solutions to the city’s homeless encampment…
Portland’s now-largest homeless encampment at the Marginal Way Park and Ride has approximately doubled in size since August, with a…
The city of Portland has finally discovered who is responsible for the thousands of homeless migrants that have inundated the…
The Maine Medical Association (MMA) last week became the fifth state medical association in the country to endorse a policy…
In a new guidance issued Wednesday, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo warned young healthy adults under the age of 65…
Washington University announced Monday that their physicians at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital will no…
Maine Regional School District 5’s (RSU5) Board of Directors is set to hear a first reading of a new policy…
Portland’s Public Health Division has been selected as a recipient of a $4 million grant from the Centers for Disease…
The owner of Fogg Lighting, a store across from one of Portland’s largest homeless encampments at the Marginal Way Park…