Bills before the Health and Human Services Committee would mandate testing for all of Maine’s 1- and 2-year-olds.
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Augusta woman who found kidney donor makes signs for other Mainers who need transplants
Krystal Reardon, 44, who used signs last fall to help her find a kidney donor, is now using similar efforts to seek help for others.
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Mumps case reported at York High School
The Maine Center for Disease Control said other students may have been exposed at the high school and at a basketball game at Massabesic High School.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Republican Party’s anti-immigrant tweets anger Portland mayor – and Republican senators
In a series of tweets late Thursday night, the state party took aim at migrants and the city, falsely connecting immigrants to outbreaks of infectious diseases.
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Patients ask Legislature to restrict insurers’ control over medications
But an insurance industry representative argues that a bill to regulate ‘step therapy’ would favor ‘costlier, but no more therapeutically effective, brand name drugs.’
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Hundreds pack hearing on bill to end most exemptions for kids’ vaccinations
The measure would eliminate nonmedical exemptions to vaccinations for measles and other infectious diseases that are required before children enter school.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
New president of Maine Med says hospitals can’t go it alone
Jeffrey Sanders believes collaboration with the community is the key to improving the state’s health care landscape.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Politics
Senate Democrats roll out plan to give Mainers relief from high prescription prices
Party leaders will submit a handful of bills, including one to set up a state commission with oversight authority on drug pricing and another to allow bulk importation from Canada.
Posted inNation / World, Perspective
Measles vaccine doesn’t cause autism, says a new, decade-long study of half a million people
The findings, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, further discredit warnings about the two-dose course for the highly contagious virus.
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How do you get anti-vaxxers to vaccinate their kids?
Statistics and shaming tactics don’t persuade anxious parents. Talking to them — for hours — does.