The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Thursday largely rejected Trump administration proposals to slash funding for education programs, medical research grants, health initiatives and Ukraine ...

This recall affects Puerto Rico. It does NOT impact Alaska, Arkansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont or Washington.

In the last decade, the percentage of kindergartners with medical exemptions has held steady, at about 0.2%. But the ...

The agency said 43 percent of the 667 animals tested for rabies in 2024 were bats, and 10 tested positive. Maine's last reported human rabies case was in 1937.

Rare Powassan virus case in Maine highlights serious tick-borne illness with no vaccine or treatment, causing neurological symptoms and potential fatality.

A record share of US kindergartners had an exemption for a required vaccination last school year, and coverage for all ...

A leading addiction expert explains how he's driven by the memory of a friend who died, and why he believes giving data on the drug supply to people on the street is more important than using it to ...

Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) reported the hospitalization of the unnamed Hancock County ...

Today’s edition of quick hits.* Tsunami waves after one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded: “The 8.8-magnitude ...

PORTLAND (WGME) -- A Maine resident has tested positive for a tick-borne illness. It's the first confirmed case identified in a person in Maine this year. The Maine CDC says an adult in Hancock County ...

Public health officials say a Hancock County resident was hospitalized with Powassan, and a crow with West Nile virus was ...

The Senate vote to approve Susan Monarez, who has served as the acting head of the CDC since January, was along party lines. Meanwhile, Stat reports that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could ...