The research will look into possible relationships between childhood obesity and osteoporosis among children exposed to PFAS.
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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.
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Owners of L.L.Bean donate $4 million to Maine Med expansion
The family of former L.L.Bean president and board chairman Leon Gorman has donated $4 million to Maine Medical Center to pay for the lobby of the hospital’s $525 million expansion. The lobby will be located in the new 265,000-square-foot Congress Street building, which will also include a new main entranceway, as well as 64 patient […]
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Maine Med unwraps plans for six-story patient center
Maine Medical Center is moving forward with the third and final phase of the hospital’s $525 million expansion project, filing site plans for a six-story building on Congress Street in Portland’s West End. Maine Med’s application, filed Tuesday with the Portland Planning Board, proposes a 265,000-square-foot building with a main entrance on Congress Street aimed […]
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Maine Med buying building occupied by Pizza Villa restaurant, a West End institution
Maine Medical Center is buying the building that houses Pizza Villa, a neighborhood institution in Portland’s West End for more than 50 years, as part of its $512 million expansion. The hospital said it has no immediate plans to change the property and will work with longtime owners Tony and Phil Regios, who are planning […]
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Tsukasa Horie
PORTLAND — Tsukasa Horie, M.D., passed away Sunday, April 15, with his family at his side. He was born in Niihama, Ehime-ken, Japan, in 1926, son of Isamu and Mineko Horie. After an early education in Niihama, Saijo and Matsuyama, he entered Tokyo Medical and Dental University, graduating with a medical degree in 1956. He was […]
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License plate approved for Barbara Bush Children's Hospital
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage has signed a bill creating a specialty license plate for The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital. The governor signed the bill Thursday, two days after the death of the former first lady. The plate will be available later this year, and $10 for every new plate sold and […]
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Barbara Bush remembered in Maine for quiet philanthropy, love of community
KENNEBUNKPORT — Cars and TV remote broadcast vans lined Ocean Avenue near Walker’s Point all day Wednesday, and a steady stream of visitors stopped to take photos. They were paying tribute to former first lady Barbara Bush at the site of the Bush family’s longtime summer home the day after she died at age 92. […]
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Katherine T. Rand
BRUNSWICK — Katherine T. Rand (Tierney), 78, formerly of Lewiston and most recently of Brunswick, passed away Monday, Oct. 30. She was born in Lewiston on Nov. 26, 1938, the daughter of Clara and John Tierney. She was educated in Lewiston schools and later went on to work in housekeeping for Maine Medical Center until she […]
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Ralph A. DeRocco
PORTLAND — Ralph A. DeRocco, 73, of Canton, passed away Monday, Oct. 2, at Maine Medical Center, following a lengthy illness. He was born in Norway on May 16, 1944, to Thelma Eunice Perkins and later adopted by Arthur DeRocco. He was enlisted during the Vietnam War and served on the USS Topeka. He married the […]