The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved over-the-counter sales of the overdose antidote naloxone, marking the first time an opioid treatment drug will be available without a prescription.
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Troubled U.S. organ transplant system targeted for overhaul
Federal health official announces plans to break up the monopoly power of the United Network for Organ Sharing, which has run the system for nearly 4 decades.
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Senior care is crushingly expensive. Boomers aren’t ready.
An estimated 18 million middle-income baby boomers will not have enough to pay for care for moderate to severe needs, according to one analysis.
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Long-used abortion pill in U.S. under threat in Texas lawsuit
A federal judge is being asked to revoke or suspend the FDA’s drug’s approval of the drug 23 years ago, an unprecedented challenge to the federal agency’s role.
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House votes to declassify info about origins of COVID-19
U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly virus.
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COVID-19 has ‘reshaped’ the health care industry, Central Maine Healthcare CEO says
From workforce shortages to the impending end of the federal public health emergency, health care systems continue to face significant operating challenges.
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Maine launches campaign to ensure MaineCare recipients don’t lose health insurance
Residents who lost MaineCare eligibility during the COVID-19 pandemic were allowed to continue receiving it, but now they must obtain other health insurance.
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Central Maine Healthcare names Lucretia Stargell president of Bridgton, Rumford hospitals
Stargell joins CMH from North Carolina, where she served as the administrator for two rural hospitals for nearly 15 years.
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Foreign-trained health professionals could be part of the solution to a workforce shortage
The problem is physicians who have immigrated to Maine have a winding, expensive path to reclaiming positions they held elsewhere.
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With no place to go, some patients in Maine spend months in hospitals
A lack of beds and staffing at assisted living facilities and nursing homes creates an unwelcome situation that benefits neither the languishing patients nor the hospitals shouldering their care.