-
PublishedNovember 21, 2022
Maine health care nonprofit receives $9 million windfall from billionaire MacKenzie Scott
The Maine Health Access Foundation was the only Maine recipient in the latest round of gifts from the philanthropist, who is giving away much of her fortune.
-
PublishedNovember 18, 2022
State’s top health officials encourage Mainers to stock up on at-home COVID tests ahead of holidays
Every Maine household is eligible to receive a free, at-home COVID-19 test kit every month. Each kit contains five rapid tests.
-
PublishedNovember 17, 2022
U.S. home births rise during pandemic to highest level in decades
Increases were seen across races and ethnicities, although home births were much less common among Hispanic women than others.
-
PublishedNovember 16, 2022
Flu cases and hospitalizations surging to our south, and headed north
Maine is so far seeing low numbers of flu cases this fall, but Mainers shouldn't expect to dodge the flu for much longer, experts say. 'Flu is on the way here,' says Dr. Dora Anne Mills of MaineHealth.
-
PublishedNovember 15, 2022
Judge overturns Georgia’s ban on abortion around 6 weeks
The judge rules that the ban was invalid because it violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent at the time it became law.
-
PublishedNovember 11, 2022
Maine among states where abortion rates rose since Supreme Court ruling
But only a small portion of the increase in Maine is the result of people traveling here from other states to seek abortions.
-
PublishedNovember 10, 2022
COVID hospitalizations are rising in kids under 6 months, CDC Director says
COVID isn’t the only threat young children face this fall and winter. U.S. health systems and children’s hospitals are currently grappling with a wave of respiratory viruses.
-
PublishedNovember 9, 2022
In a first, doctors treat fatal genetic disease before birth
A toddler from Ottawa, Ontario, is the first child treated as a fetus for Pompe disease, an inherited and often fatal disorder.
-
PublishedNovember 4, 2022
Death in CRISPR gene therapy study sparks search for answers
The lone volunteer in a unique study involving a gene-editing technique has died, and those behind the trial are now trying to figure out what killed him
-
PublishedNovember 4, 2022
U.S. flu season off to a fast start as other viruses spread
Reports of flu are already high in 17 states, and the hospitalization rate hasn’t been this high this early since the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
- ← Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- …
- 272
- Next Page →