Patty Wight
News Reporter and HostPatty is a graduate of the University of Vermont and a multiple award-winning reporter for Maine Public Radio. Her specialty is health coverage: from policy stories to patient stories, physical health to mental health and anything in between. Patty joined Maine Public Radio in 2012 after producing stories as a freelancer for NPR programs such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She got hooked on radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and hasn’t looked back ever since.
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The group is examining state laws that regulate changes in hospital ownership and termination of services. -
What's an easy way to delay getting a smartphone? For these parents, the answer to that riddle is: get a landline. -
They say Collins bears responsibility for the court's subsequent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. -
The announcement means that all Northern Light providers will remain in-network with Anthem for at least another month. -
The organization says the decision will affect hundreds of patients and is the result of a new federal law that bans providers who also offer abortions from billing Medicaid. -
As of Wednesday, October 1, non-hospital providers at Northern Light Health are out-of-network with Anthem.
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The Food and Drug Administration last week approved the drug leucovorin to treat autism. But the approval was made without a formal review, and some behavioral health physicians in Maine are cautioning families that more research is needed to know whether it's effective.
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If they fail to reach an agreement, Northern Light physicians will be out-of-network for Anthem patients starting in October, and hospital-based services will be out of network at the end of the year.
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Puthiery Va, director of the Maine CDC, says research linking Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism only finds a correlation — not a direct cause. -
Police say a 17 year old from the neighboring town of Mexico was driving a Toyota Tacoma just before 10 p.m. when he struck a pedestrian in the roadway on Kerr street.
