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PublishedMarch 27, 2024
After intense lobbying, Maine Senate backs bill to set minimum nurse staffing in hospitals
The legislation would set required ratios in an effort to improve working conditions and ease a nursing shortage. Opponents say the measure would reduce access to care.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2024
Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to abortion medication mifepristone
A consensus appeared to emerge among justices that the abortion opponents who challenged the FDA's approval of the medication and subsequent actions to ease access to it lack the legal right to sue.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2024
Congressional funding to help central Maine mental health provider expand services
Kennebec Behavioral Health intends to use $750,000 in congressional funding, secured by U.S. Sen. Angus King, to support the services it offers at five community clinics in Augusta, Farmington, Skowhegan, Waterville and Winthrop.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2024
What’s at stake in the Supreme Court abortion pill case
The case could make it harder to get medication abortions even in states where abortion is legal.
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PublishedMarch 20, 2024
Trump suggests he’d support a national ban on abortions at around 15 weeks
The Republican former president has taken credit for appointing Supreme Court justices who struck down a federally guaranteed right to abortion, and now suggests a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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PublishedMarch 19, 2024
Consumer advocates urge passage of bill to regulate hospital facility fees
The bill would prohibit charging such fees for telehealth appointments and require signs be placed to inform patients when the fees may be charged.
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PublishedMarch 19, 2024
U.S. abortions reach recent high, with record number done via medication
The increase comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to limit access to mifepristone, a key abortion drug.
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PublishedMarch 19, 2024
After years of ransomware attacks, health care defenses still fail
The danger was obvious in 2021, when ransomware gangs struck hospitals already overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2024
Biden signs executive order to advance study of women’s health
The announcement comes as the ripple effects spread from the Supreme Court's decision that overturned federal abortion rights, touching on medical issues for women who never intended to end their pregnancies.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2024
Clover Health Care fosters relationships between preschoolers and ‘grandfriends’
The friendships formed between some in the youngest generation and some in the oldest generation in our society are rewarding to both groups involved.
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