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.
Lawmakers in Nebraska on Tuesday came one step closer to passing a controversial piece of legislation which activists say is not based in sound science and is likely to increase stigma around HIV and Hepatitis infections.
An AIDS service organization in Flint, Wellness AIDS Services, is asking Flint leaders to back a proposal which would allow them to create a needle exchange. The exchange, they argue, will reduce the incidents of intravenous drug user infections with HIV, as well as Hepatitis B and C. But local leaders are leery of the [...]
A Department of Corrections spokesman says a policy barring HIV-positive prisoners from working in food service is in place to prevent transmission through food. But experts say there is no scientific basis for those fears and the Department of Civil Rights is launching a formal investigation into the state policy.
[COMMENTARY] A Grand Rapids area dermatologist, it was revealed late last year, may have exposed as many as 13,000 people to HIV and Hepatitis B and C because of his alleged failure to properly sterilize medical equipment. The Kent County Health Department sent out 13,000 letters to patients of Dr. Robert Stokes. The letters encouraged [...]
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