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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Starting Thursday, May 1, they'll be replaced with a design that includes a pine tree and the North Star. -
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst say they've discovered a new bacteria in rabbit ticks in Maine that's related to the spotted fever pathogen. -
26-year-old Jaxson Marston of Addison, had a suspected broken neck and was intermittently unresponsive.
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In May, Houlton Regional Hospital will close its obstetrics unit. It's the fourth hospital this year close its labor and delivery services, and follows several others over the past decade — from York to Fort Kent. -
Hospitals, health clinics, and pharmacies in Maine are urging state lawmakers to support a bill that protects access to a program that they say serves as a lifeline. -
MaineGeneral Health in Augusta is revising downward the number of positions that will be lost due to financial challenges made worse by capped MaineCare payments and a state budget deficit. -
The report said that Maine's larger hospitals are the fifth-poorest in the U.S. and are the second most heavily in debt. -
Roughly 200 nurses, parents, and community members packed a town hall meeting in Houlton Wednesday night to urge Houlton Regional Hospital to reverse its decision to close the labor and delivery unit next month. -
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Junior wants the U.S. CDC to drop its recommendation that communities fluoridate drinking water. -
Dr. Cliff Rosen, senior scientist at the Institute, said the funding — which was supposed to continue for two more years — supported building research infrastructure in Maine.
