BANGOR- Babies born to opiate-addicted mothers are almost always addicted, too. In eastern Maine, where young women of childbearing age make up the fastest-growing segment of the opiate-abusing population, the number of babies who begin their lives in the physical and emotional distress of opiate withdrawal is increasing… Read More
BELFAST – The day before Thanksgiving, Linda Nash paused in her preparations for a big family get-together to recall the weeks she spent commuting from her home to the neonatal intensive care unit at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. It’s a bittersweet memory, one that’s not easy… Read More
Surgeon Michelle Toder, on a recent Monday morning, sat at a boxy control console in the corner of a surgical suite on the first floor of Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. She peered intently through the goggles-shaped eyepiece at a three-dimensional digital image of Amy Webb’s small… Read More
AUGUSTA – There are now just two spots on the planet – the jungles of Vietnam and the demilitarized zone in South Korea – where exposure to Agent Orange is officially recognized as the presumed cause of a host of devastating illnesses in American military personnel. Read More
Northern Maine’s only providers of open-heart procedures such as cardiac bypass surgery will soon leave the provider network of the state’s largest health insurer. The change means that Mainers enrolled in any of the plans offered by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine, including self-insured groups… Read More
For veteran bowlers Rob and Ron Carter the perfect game is just around the corner. So the twin brothers had no trouble convincing each other to head over to the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes one day this summer even though they had vowed earlier to stay… Read More
Terri Badger couldn’t do a thing with her hair. Try as she might, the 54-year-old Orono woman never was able to coax her baby-fine, strawberry-blond locks into the tousled, gamin style she coveted. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
BANGOR – Mainers who are unable to receive medical treatment because of travel expenses now have an easier way to ease their pain. AirLifeLine, a national nonprofit organization founded in 1978, offers a free flying service to patients and their families nationwide. It carries burn… Read More
ELLSWORTH – A state veterinarian has placed an Ellsworth riding stable under a 45-day quarantine after one of its horses tested positive for rabies. The Crossroads Equestrian Center, a riding, training and boarding facility, along with eight horses, were quarantined Wednesday afternoon. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
It’s all about freedom, they say. The Mainers who are paying more than $2,000 for laser surgery to correct nearsightedness believe the procedure frees them from a kind of bondage. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More