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.
A budget proposal introduced by Congressional Republicans last week would end federal funding for Community Health Centers, and that, experts say, would devastate a key program that provides access to health care for thousands of Michigan residents.
While investigating the recent increases of syphilis cases in three Michigan counties, information surfaced that Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s executive budget includes a proposal to eliminate the state public health lab in Houghton. That cut, the Michigan Department of Community Health has told stakeholders, will delay testing and reporting for numerous public health threats including sexually [...]
For those exposed to the HIV virus that causes AIDS, access to anti-retroviral drugs within the first 72 hours may prevent them from being infected. But as the experience of one University of Michigan graduate student shows, access to the critical drugs in the state of Michigan is hit or miss at best as many health care providers are unaware of treatment protocols and the state has no guidelines for handling exposure.
Marcus Cheatham, spokesperson for the Ingham County Health Department, said Thursday that an outbreak of syphilis in the county appears to be under control. Michigan Messenger reported in May that Ingham County had classified an alarming increase of cases of the age-old sexually transmitted infection as an “outbreak.” At that time, the county had 10 [...]
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