September 18, 2006 EditionEdition

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A necessary process? | The Certificate of Need process is a key part of the state's efforts to encourage collaboration and reduce health care...

MaineGeneral Health has big plans in Waterville. The health care corporation has proposed closing one of its...
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FIRST PERSON: Make me pretty | A plastic surgeon discusses the hottest cosmetic procedures in Maine, the dangers of lunch-hour facelifts and his most...

Northeast Plastic Surgery, Lewiston I've enjoyed practicing in the state of Maine. It's a very busy place to...
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From scrubs to suits | Nurses find unique roles in health care policy and management by combining their experience in patient care with a...

When Alison Mynick was a nurse, healing happened at high-speed. If a patient was in pain, she...
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Trend or epidemic? | Physicians increasingly are giving up private practice for hospital positions, but the impact of that change on health care isn’t...

In 1988, following an orthopaedic residency at Boston University and a year spent working in trauma in...
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A matter of degrees | The new Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences aims to boost Maine's research capacity and pool of trained scientists

Christopher McCarty, a graduate student at the University of Maine, just finished studying a genetic investigation technique...
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Playing sick | Actors portraying patients with maladies from headaches to cystic fibrosis are a key training tool for medical students at Maine Medical...

A doctor walks into an examination room and greets his patient, who tells him she's experiencing nausea,...
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Tracking the elusive young Mainer | In the nation’s oldest state, some businesses search for a new audience

The Sunday edition of the Lewiston Sun Journal contains an oddity, a section unlike any in a...
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Full steam ahead | Nearly all Maine’s hospitals are now using a unique medical waste treatment plant in Pittsfield

In early August, St. Andrews Hospital & Healthcare Center in Boothbay Harbor got a delivery of 30...
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Chasing bugs | As DHHS works to solve its Medicaid billing problem, it seeks reforms to prevent a repeat of the crisis

In his eight-year tenure in the Legislature, Rep. Kevin Glynn says he hasn't seen a bigger screw-up...
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Dog days | A chat with Persephone Cabaniss, co-founder of Agatha & Louise in Portland

Founded: May 2005 Employees: Two Startup costs: $35,000 Revenue, year one: $150,000 Projected revenue, year two: $250,000 Contact: 879-7297 399 Fore St., Portland...
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Come together | Bar Harbor-based Soyatech creates an international conference on soy food and fuel

Peter Golbitz has come a long way since he launched a Bar Harbor-based tofu business in 1979...
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