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.
LANSING — HIV advocates and legal experts say the state’s local health departments and the Michigan Department of Community Health are using documents which exaggerate the risks of HIV transmission and misstate what Michigan law requires.
The Michigan Department of Community Health has failed to fulfill a promise of a new policy addressing the use of anti-retroviral medications to prevent new infections of HIV.
It’s National Sunshine Week, a time for Americans to celebrate America’s open records laws.
LANSING — The Michigan Department of Community Health is calling on city officials to request an investigation by the Michigan attorney general’s office into the release of a man’s HIV status related to arrests made during a controversial sex sting in May.
The Michigan Department of Community Health released an announcement today that the state is facing a “serious shortage of physicians” as primary care doctors retire, leave the area or leave the practice.
Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood is attending the Medical Marijuana proposed rules hearing this morning in Lansing at the Michigan State Secondary Complex. About 200 people are in attendance. Approximately forty-five minutes into the hearing, the state employees conducting the hearing directed persons offering testimony about rules not to provide any comments that might duplicate concerns [...]
The Michigan Department of Community Health has issued a public health alert due to an outbreak of E. coli bacterial infections. The outbreak appears to be linked to ground beef sold at Kroger stores, the MDCH alert said. The state has identified 15 cases of the food poisoning that are genetically linked. Ten of those [...]
The Service Employees International Union Healthcare filed a legal complaint late yesterday with the Michigan Department of Community Health to stop a possible buyout by the hedge fund Carlyle Group of 28 Michigan nursing homes. The 28 homes are currently owned by Manor Care, which also owns homes in Illinois and Pennsylvania. But a spokesman [...]
With cold weather locked in for the foreseeable future, the Division of Environmental Health in the Michigan Department of Community Health is raising awareness about the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning through a new website. The site is www.michigan.gov/carbonmonoxide. The launch of the new site aims to educate Michigan residents on the dangers of carbon [...]
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