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.
BAY CITY — The case of Michael S. Holder, complete with a cast that includes an admittedly racially-biased jury, a scorned lover and a life-threatening virus surrounded more by fear than fact is only one example of several prosecutions brought under a 1988 law that experts warn is vague and can lead to vindictive prosecutions.
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.
LANSING — A bill proposed last month in the state House could remove a mandate that requires persons seeking a test for HIV to sign a consent form to receive the test. Those in favor of the legislation say it will remove a barrier many health care providers find cumbersome and allow them to detect and treat the infection early. But HIV advocates say the move will violate privacy rights and could open the door for insurance companies to deny coverage to HIV-positive patients.
Since the 1960s we’ve all been told how dangerous tobacco is. But new studies out of Kentucky may change that perception. Researchers have announced they found a way to grow an ocean algae based protein in tobacco creating what may be a cheap, effective microbicide to prevent HIV infection.
Planned Parenthood, MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation are launching a brand new initiative to increase awareness and testing for sexually transmitted infections among Americans 25 years and younger. The new program is designed to connect to tech savvy youth by using the common cyberese of abbreviating longer phrases — like Oh my God to [...]
Amid the 16,000 project proposals suggesting where federal stimulus money might go in Michigan are several that present ominous statistics about HIV and sexually transmitted infections in Wayne County Jail.
Expressing concerns about the spread of HIV on college campuses, MSU student leaders gathered to take HIV tests and encourage the rest of the student body to follow suit.
Scientists from Koronis Pharmaceuticals are getting ready to enter a third phase of clinical studies on a drug they believe forces the virus to over-replicate and create errors in the genetic make up the virus, ultimately destroying the virus in the human body.
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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