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To Your Health: Know your knees and how to protect them

Posted on May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 by Scott Fulmer, UMass Lowell, and Ann Backus, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Health and Safety

When you go to sea, whether it’s calm or blowing hard, you are giving your knees a workout. The knee is a bony joint that is a complex collection of bones, muscles, ligaments (soft tissue … Continue reading →

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Best protection against tick-borne diseases is to be “Tick Wise”

Posted on May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 by Maine DHHS in Health and Safety

From the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Center forDisease Control and Prevention With warmer weather on its way, Lyme Disease Awareness Month is here again! Health care providers reported 1,508 cases of Lyme … Continue reading →

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To Your Health: Acupuncture another way to treat pain

Posted on January 31, 2022January 31, 2022 by Melissa Waterman in Health and Safety

It’s not easy to accept, but lobster fishing involves pain. For the young, the pain may be fleeting, something to shake off with a hot shower and some rest. For others, the daily repetition of … Continue reading →

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To Your Health: A non-invasive way to treat pain, avoid injury

Posted on January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 by Melissa Waterman in Health and Safety

Lobstermen have one of the highest rates of job-related injuries in the country. For most it’s common to work in pain. The bending, reaching, and lifting, repeated over and over again year after year, takes … Continue reading →

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To Your Health: Depression is not a character flaw

Posted on November 29, 2021November 29, 2021 by MLA Staff in Health and Safety, People & Places

By Melissa Waterman “Depression still has a stigma, ” said River Martin, help line manager at NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Maine. “But knowing that others have it helps normalize it. It’s not a … Continue reading →

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To Your Health: Change of season, change of mood

Posted on November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 by Melissa Waterman in Health and Safety

River Martin is the manager of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Maine help line. The help line assists Maine residents in finding the resources they need to maintain their mental health. This month, … Continue reading →

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To Your Health: Sleep apnea may lead to a host of health problems

Posted on September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 by Melissa Waterman in Health and Safety

I snore. My partner snores. I’m sure half of my friends, male and female, snore each night as they sleep. We are a snoring species. But sometimes snoring is more than a regular rumble. Sometimes … Continue reading →

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To Your Health: Overdose leading cause of preventable death among fishermen

Posted on August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 by Scott Fulmer, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Health and Safety

he pandemic has made people much more aware of health and safety over the last year and a half. Understanding health and safety in commercial fishing, however, is not new. In the years 2000-2014, 693 … Continue reading →

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To Your Health: Simple Techniques to Protect Your Knees

Posted on June 1, 2021June 3, 2021 by Scott Fulmer, University of Massachusetts, and Ann Backus, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Health and Safety

Does it seem like everyone either has knee pain or knows someone who does? A group of 286 lobstermen interviewed every three months from 2012 through 2015 reported new knee injuries at a rate of … Continue reading →

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New Product Incorporates Lobster Protein To Protect, Improve Skin

Posted on March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 by Melissa Waterman in Health and Safety

Maine history is filled with inventors. Chester Greenwood, as a chilly youth, invented earmuffs to keep his ears warm. Looking for a more hygienic way to clear between his teeth, Charles Forster came up with … Continue reading →

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