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The state experienced a 16 percent decrease in fatal overdoses in 2023, which is more than five times the nationwide decline. This was also the state’s first year-over-year reduction in fatalities since 2018.

Council members say the slow approach is deliberate, and hope to start soliciting grant proposals next month.

Overdose deaths through October were down 11.7% compared with the same time period in 2022.

Maine has now witnessed the true horror of mass gun violence.

The 4,000-member organization is the fifth state medical association to pass a resolution calling for universal health care insurance coverage.

Members of the Maine Medical Association over the weekend strongly endorsed a policy statement calling for universal healthcare insurance coverage, becoming only the fifth state medical association to do so, according to advocacy groups. “I don’t...

The 4,000-member organization is the fifth state medical association to pass a resolution calling for universal health care insurance coverage.

The Maine Medical Association is the fifth state medical association to pass a resolution calling for universal health coverage.

About 50% of Mainers benefit from these programs, but we still have far to go to improve our health as a nation, including improvements in life expectancy, preventable hospitalizations and infant mortality.

Maines medical community is applauding the U.S. Supreme Courts decision to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone. The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and rejected a lower courts restrictions on the drug while a lawsuit continues. ...