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.
Wednesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its first multi-year report on HIV infections in the U.S, finding that new infections remained stable at about 50,000 per year, but also noting that young, black, gay or bisexual men saw increasing infection rates over that time period — the only risk group to see an increase.
While state health department continues to delay adoption of a policy to provide access to life saving medications to prevent new infections, county goes public with its program and calls identification of 54 new cases in the county in 2010 a “crisis.”
A policy directing Michigan health care providers to provide a potentially life saving intervention for people exposed to HIV through consensual or non-consensual sexual activity or drug use has still not been issued by the Michigan Department of Community Health.
Chalk this up as another reason to not want mosquitoes biting you. Health officials in the state are warning residents in southwest Michigan that this year’s plentiful blood sucking population could be harboring a deadly virus. “If we see more than three cases in a cluster we consider that an outbreak. This is an outbreak,” [...]
With very little fanfare, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new rapid test to detect Hepatitis C infection. The test requires a blood draw, and is approved for ages 15 and up, but results are available in 20 minutes, rather than waiting for the lab to process it, reports the CDC. [...]
LANSING — State lawmakers on Wednesday heard testimony on legislation that would eliminate the current requirement that patients provide written, informed consent to receive an HIV test. While Republican State Sen. Tom George said his bill is meant to “modernize” testing, others say it leaves patients vulnerable. “What someone might call a barrier, another person might call a safeguard,” said fellow GOP lawmaker Bruce Patterson.
Schools across Michigan are shutting down because of the appearance of a flu like illness. Kalamazoo County Health Department says several districts in the county will shut down for the next two days, and individual schools in two other districts are shutting down, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a controversial Great Lakes health report after congressional investigations were begun to find out why the report was delayed for nine months. The report, some details of which leaked out last month, is titled “Public Health Implications of Hazardous Substances in the Twenty-Six U.S. Great [...]
Last week’s revelation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that one-quarter of teen-age girls have at least one sexually transmitted disease came as no surprise to some southeast Michigan health providers, who say such an epidemic is the fruit of a widespread failure to teach teens about sex. The study, released last Tuesday at [...]
A new University of Michigan study has found that administering the human papillomavirus vaccine based on a woman’s risk factors could keep the vast majority of eligible women from getting the cancer-fighting vaccine. The results support a federal recommendation that all females ages 11 to 26 should get the vaccine, the study’s lead researcher said. [...]
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