Corey Black, the founder and owner of Earth Keeper Cannabis at 357 Main St. in Winthrop, holds marijuana Oct. 16 that was offered to her by a licensed grower. Black paid for testing that found the ...

Daniel C. Bryant, MD, lives in Cape Elizabeth. In his Nov. 23 Maine Sunday Telegram op-ed (“When health insurance breaks down, we break too“), Dr. Jeffrey Barkin, former president of the Maine Medical ...

A shortage of physicians in rural Maine has led to rising costs across the state. A new study will determine if building a medical school in Penobscot County, likely affiliated with the University of ...

The higher costs of bringing in short-term nurses was especially necessary during the pandemic. But Maine’s hospitals continue to struggle with those costs just to meet the ongoing labor shortage. The ...

In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine’s largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. “Through March (six months of ...

Northern Light Health’s flagship hospital in Bangor, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, has been losing more money than its more rural counterparts in recent years, leading to difficult ...

Maine Gov. Janet Mills has signed a bill prohibiting medical debt collectors from placing a lien on a person’s home or garnishing their wages. The new law builds on previous legislation signed by the ...