FARMINGTON – The next topic for “Prescriptions for Health” is cardiovascular disease featuring cardiologist Dr. Paul Sweeney. Prescriptions for Health is a health education series that features local physicians who present on…
Beginning this year, the Maine Immunization Program will be supplying childhood vaccines free of charge only for qualified children who are 18 years or younger. Qualified children include: those who have MaineCare…
FARMINGTON – WMCA Health Services is pleased to announce that free and low-cost Gardasil, the vaccine to prevent human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer, is now available at WMCA Health Services…
FARMINGTON – Evergreen Behavioral Services has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Maine Health Access Foundation to address primary care needs of children with pervasive developmental disorders and their families in…
FARMINGTON – Franklin Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce the addition of Richard Krull, MD, a medical oncologist and hematologist, who began providing cancer care at Franklin Memorial Hospital on Dec. 17.…
Just four years ago, Auburn Housing Authority became the first public housing authority in Maine to adopt a smoke-free policy. In November the agency abolished its grandfathering policy and went 100 percent…
FARMINGTON – The Healthy Community Coalition is pleased to announce that the mobile health unit will expand its monthly outreach in southern Franklin and northern Androscoggin counties beginning Dec. 29 through June.…
FARMINGTON – Starting Jan. 8, Dr. Carmen Crofoot, an orthopaedic surgeon affiliated with Franklin Health Orthopaedics in Farmington, will see patients in Livermore Falls on the second Thursday of each month at…
BINGHAM – Jacquelyn Watson-Arsenault, RDH will be joining the dental staff of Bingham Area Health Center in November 2008 in a part time capacity. “Living in Somerset County for the last sixteen…
By Steve Bien, M.D. According to last week’s New York Times article, the latest findings from the Astra Zeneca School of Medicine are that all of us should have our C-reactive proteins…