Tobacco use and nicotine addiction take an enormous financial toll on individuals, families and communities in our state. Smoking-related illnesses cost Maine more than $811 million every year in ...

A new report says that Maine's state goal of eradicating lead poisoning by 2030 will not be realized until 2050.

Hannah Reidel received the email at 5:30 p.m. last Saturday — she was one of thousands being fired by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Trump administration. Reidel, 24, ...

While the rate of overall drug overdose deaths has shown promising signs of declining, overdose deaths attributed to cocaine have been rising for years.

The reality is that there are over 100 well-vetted articles, reviewed by experts, that have studied OPCs across the globe, and the evidence is robust. OPCs reduce mortality, reduce transmission of ...

The panel of vaccine experts were supposed to hold their first meeting under the Trump administration in late February. It's ...

The study provides growing evidence of the threat it poses even when cats have no direct exposure to sick dairy cows or ...

"If a State Fire Marshall cannot tell the difference between these detectors, how can I be expected to?" the daycare owner ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios The fatal drug overdose rate fell 4% nationwide from 2022 to 2023, per new CDC data — but grew notably out West and up in Alaska. Why it matters: Overdose deaths seem to be ...

As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization ...

Members of Congress are reacting to President Donald Trump's crackdown on federal government jobs. Some Republicans are ...

Influenza continues to spread rapidly in Maine, with more than 2,000 confirmed cases last week, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said. Maine recorded 2,028 cases of influenza for ...