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Maine gets an ‘F’ for anti-smoking spending

Maine is failing to fund programs proven to reduce death and disease caused by tobacco, despite receiving tens of millions of dollars a year to fight smoking, a new report finds.

The for-profit company that turned around Maine’s failing addiction treatment initiative

Rodney and Heather Auger used to wake up each day knowing they’d need drugs to get through all 24 hours.

For this Allagash woman, driving to treatment was a ‘brand new form of cancer’

Margaret McBreairty of Allagash traveled from one military base to another during her decade of service in the U.S. Air Force and later journeyed to Iraq and Afghanistan to work as a private contractor. But after all that, driving to Boston for medical care was nearly her undoing.

Kids in Maine are more likely to get cancer, and no one really knows why

Tabaitha Steward has come to expect the averted eyes and downcast glances when she works to raise awareness about childhood cancer.

Hidden costs lurk in LePage plan to charge, penalize MaineCare recipients

At the center of Gov. Paul LePage’s latest push to reform the state’s Medicaid program is the assertion that many of those who benefit from the health insurance program should help pay for it.

What’s causing Maine’s community nursing crisis

Courtney Wilson and Josselyn Agura will graduate from nursing school Saturday, and already they’re worried about burning out from their chosen profession.

Mainers, here are the basics on pre-existing medical conditions

Much of the fevered debate about House Republicans’ plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is coalescing around its implications for people with pre-existing conditions.

Maine’s rate of asbestos deaths is highest in nation

Cancer linked to asbestos is killing residents in Maine at the highest rate in the country

The part of Maine that backed Trump is least likely to benefit from GOP health plan

Areas of Maine that backed President Donald Trump in last year’s election stand to lose the most federal aid to buy health insurance under the House Republicans’ plan to repeal Obamacare, an analysis of Maine voter and tax credit data shows.

Is Presque Isle really the nation’s ‘epicenter of anxiety’?

In a blog for BDN's The Level, Jackie Farwell reviews a recent New York Times opinion writer's claim that Presque Isle is the "epicenter of anxiety".

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