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PublishedMay 30, 2019
Maine Senate advances bill to allow assisted suicide for terminally ill patients
Thursday's 19-16 vote to approve the measure followed a similarly close vote in the House this week.
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PublishedMay 29, 2019
Tighter vaccination law could spur increase in medical exemptions
Medical exemptions jumped after California passed a law similar to Maine's in 2015, but Maine officials hope to avoid that problem.
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PublishedMay 24, 2019
At $2 million, priciest-ever medicine treats fatal genetic disease
The medicine is a gene therapy that treats an inherited condition called spinal muscular atrophy, which strikes about 400 babies born in the U.S. each year.
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PublishedMay 23, 2019
Senate vote sends bill to end vaccine exemptions to governor’s desk
A recent measles case in Maine was cited by both supporters and opponents of the measure to end all non-medical exemptions to school-required vaccinations.
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PublishedMay 22, 2019
Measles case at Madison schools, Skowhegan hospital raise awareness of vaccination need
Madison school officials say the incubation period has passed in a single case of measles, but they have sent home a letter advising parents to be mindful of the situation and to call the school nurse with questions.
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PublishedMay 22, 2019
More than 700 vaccinated after Maine restaurant worker infection
The Maine Center for Disease Control is warning that restaurant patrons may have been exposed to Hepatitis A.
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PublishedMay 21, 2019
Hundreds of Mainers protest other states’ new anti-abortion legislation
Demonstrators pack Congress Square Park to rally against laws passed recently in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio and other states that place new restrictions on access to abortion.
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PublishedMay 21, 2019
Maine House gives final approval to ending vaccine opt-outs
The bill to eliminate religious and philosophical exemptions to school-required vaccinations must clear just 1 more hurdle before going to the governor.
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PublishedMay 21, 2019
Vaccinated child had Maine’s first case of measles in 2 years, say health officials
The case was confirmed Monday in a school-aged child in Somerset County, and the agency says others may have been exposed at schools in Madison and the hospital in Skowhegan.
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PublishedMay 17, 2019
Psychiatric patient who killed father allowed to move into Augusta group home
A judge says he'll approve a request from a Riverview Psychiatric Center patient found not criminally responsible for the 1995 killing of his father to move to a group home in Augusta.
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