I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The Michigan Department of Community Health issued a letter to local health departments Friday which “strongly encourages” those public bodies to cease using Client Acknowledgment forms that are legally inaccurate.
LANSING — A policy to provide access to people who have been exposed to HIV to anti-retroviral medications has been stalled in the Michigan Department of Community Health’s legal department for months, documents obtained by Michigan Messenger show.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force on Tuesday called on the Michigan Department of Community Health to heed the calls for action on its delayed n-PEP policy.
The Michigan Department of Community Health has failed to fulfill a promise of a new policy addressing the use of anti-retroviral medications to prevent new infections of HIV.
In December of 2009, Michigan Messenger reported about the lack of policies and procedures in relation to the distribution of non-occupational post exposure prophylaxis (n-PEP) in the state. The n-PEP procedure uses a high dose of antiretroviral medications for 28 days to prevent the HIV virus from infecting a person after exposure. It has been [...]
EAST LANSING — Amna Osman, director of the Michigan Department of Community Health‘s Division of Health, Wellness and Disease Control, said the state will have new policies in place “early next year” to advise medical providers when and how to prescribe nonoccupational post exposure prophylaxis (nPEP) for people who might have been exposed to HIV [...]
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