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Defense Department lacks resources to conduct all required cognitive tests, federal report finds (opens the original)
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The U.S. Department of Defense doesn’t have enough staff or technology to complete cognitive assessments for all high-risk, active-duty service members. Those are the conclusions in a new report from the Government Accountability Office. It found that only 86% of required assessments were completed last year. The assessments are part of an effort to monitor the brain health of service members exposed to blasts, and were ordered in the wake of a mass shooting in Lewiston by Army Reservist Robert
4th person in Maine this year tests positive for Powassan virus (opens the original)
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An individual in Penobscot County has tested positive for the Powassan virus. That’s the fourth person in the state to develop the disease so far this year, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The other cases were reported in York, Lincoln, and Penobscot counties in June. Powassan is transmitted through the bite of deer ticks, and infections can be severe, even fatal. Symptoms include fever, muscle aches, and vomiting, as well as meningitis, convulsions, and an alte
MaineHealth board votes to close midcoast hospital birthing unit (opens the original)
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The board of MaineHealth has voted to close the birthing unit at Lincoln Hospital. In a written announcement Thursday, the health system committed to not close any other birthing units for the next two years. But officials say the roughly 130 annual births at the Damariscotta hospital are too few and they haven’t been able to maintain stable staffing despite recruitment efforts. With the closure of the unit, officials say they’ll create a new model in which Lincoln Hospital and Mid Coast Hospita
Father sues Maine Department of Education and school district over vaccination requirements (opens the original)
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A central Maine father is suing the superintendent of MSAD 52, which serves Turner, Greene and Leeds, and Education Commissioner Pender Makin over state school vaccination laws. James Childs alleges in the lawsuit that his son, a rising eighth grader, is facing expulsion because he isn’t vaccinated for religious reasons. Maine eliminated religious exemptions for school vaccinations in 2021 and only allows medical exemptions. Idaho-based advocacy group We The Patriots USA is also a plaintiff in t
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