Maine is one of just seven states to earn an A on a new national survey of children’s access to dental health services. Although that’s good news in important regards, one public health expert says it should not be confused with the real goal: that all Maine children should have ...
BANGOR, Maine — Construction has been completed at the new 30,000-square-foot veterans health clinic on the campus of the Maine Veterans’ Home and adjacent to the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center in Bangor. On Tuesday, officials from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs toured the sparkling new facility and took formal ...
Children learn by example. Yet, many parents seem to think their youngsters will adopt healthy habits on their own, even when the parents’ own behavior sets the stage for disease. For example, to help prevent cavities, I often recommend that children brush their teeth twice a day with a fluoride ...
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — An executive order by Gov. John Baldacci is promoting school-based vaccination clinics. The order Baldacci signed Tuesday protects school districts and other vaccination clinic participants from liability. During the H1N1 emergency last year, many school districts said concerns over potential liability put at risk their ability ...
HARTFORD, Conn. — A recent federal report says Connecticut and Massachusetts are tied for the sixth-highest immunization rate nationwide for children younger than 3 years old. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 76 percent of young children in both states were immunized in 2009 against polio, measles, mumps ...
As Maine children head back to school, Dr. Dora Anne Mills, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, is worried about the spread of whooping cough, a potentially deadly bacterial infection more formally known as pertussis. On Monday, the Maine CDC issued a health advisory for parents ...
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) — U.S. health experts recommended ...
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Megan Kemp gave birth to her son Hunter in January 2003. He was a healthy child, falling in the 75th percentile for weight. By age 3, Hunter weighed 38 pounds. By age 4, however, he weighed 37 pounds, and by 5, that weight hadn’t changed. Mom was beginning to get ...
Fourteen small community hospitals in Maine have made a commitment to improve medication safety for their patients, supported with funding from the Maine Health Access Foundation, or MeHAF. With combined awards of $670,000, the hospitals will im-plement a variety of measures aimed at preventing medication errors in and out of ...
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Using Health Information Exchange (HIE) technology, Mayo Clinic retrieves a ...
MILBRIDGE, Maine — About 2 a.m. one morning, Beth Hartford bolted out of bed and awakened her husband. “It’s in there,” she told him. “I know it is in there.” Brent Hartford cut a hole in a bedroom wall and discovered his wife was right — mold was growing inside ...
BANGOR, Maine — Nationwide, about half of all prescription drugs purchased go to waste when patients die, have an allergic reaction or simply decide they don’t want to take the medication their doctors order. In Maine, 17 percent of the drugs collected so far through the state’s mail-back program have ...
Much of the mental health service delivery system architecture was built in the last century when thinking about mental illness was much different from today. Segregation and isolation were supported through well-intentioned yet misguided actions. Large state hospitals and community mental health centers created parallel sys-tems of health care. Stigma ...
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This helps get your body used to the allergens (desensitization). ...
BANGOR, Maine – Obesity, depression, drug addiction, heart disease: A noted researcher says many common medical problems in adults are rooted in traumatic experiences during childhood. Physician Vincent Felitti, a researcher with the Kaiser Permanente health maintenance organization in San Diego, told an audience of health care providers and others ...
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BANGOR, Maine — There was a carnival atmosphere Sunday morning inside the crowded University College of Bangor Fitness Center. Colorful balloons and beach balls brightened the cavernous gymnasium. Children lined up at craft tables to trace cheerful acrylic designs on white T-shirts and to carefully layer colored sand in clear ...
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