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.
Just as one Michigan prosecutor’s attempt to make a person’s HIV status into a criminal matter has ended, the Michigan Messenger’s sister site the Colorado Independent reports that a Denver prosecutor has filed similar charges against an HIV-positive person in that state. In the Colorado case the defendant is charged not under a bio-terrorism law [...]
Clinton Township resident Daniel Allen, 45, says that while he is relieved that bio-terrorism charges leveled against him because of an October 2009 fight have been dismissed, the stress has taken a toll on him. He says the stress has disrupted his sleep patterns and taken a toll on his memory. That, in turn, has [...]
ANN ARBOR — Researchers at the University of Michigan have published two articles about how a collection of spread out peptides on the surface of sperm cells are able to assist HIV in being more effective in infecting other cells, the university says. The peptide tangles, discovered in 2007, are called semen enhancer of viral [...]
A new study by U.S. researchers indicates that HIV can infect women through healthy, undamaged genital tissue. The study by Thomas Hope of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and researchers at Tulane University in New Orleans will present their findings the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in San Francisco this week.
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