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.
If you have breast, gastric, ovarian, thyroid, small cell lung, lymphoma or other cancers, your access to effective treatment may well be choked off by a national drug shortage.
LANSING — State lawmakers on Wednesday heard testimony on legislation that would eliminate the current requirement that patients provide written, informed consent to receive an HIV test. While Republican State Sen. Tom George said his bill is meant to “modernize” testing, others say it leaves patients vulnerable. “What someone might call a barrier, another person might call a safeguard,” said fellow GOP lawmaker Bruce Patterson.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s decision to cut millions from the state’s Medicaid budget will lead to an even greater loss in health care funding.
Granholm and the legislature agreed to cut $16 million from the Medicaid fund that reimburses hospitals and physicians for treating poor patients, or about 4 percent of the budget. But this cut will be multiplied by a concurrent reduction in federal Medicaid matching dollars: for each dollar the state spends on Medicaid, the federal government contributes $2.30, according to the Michigan Health and Hospital Association.
LANSING – Michigan lawmakers and their staffs are getting their first look at a Web site called Michigan Hospital Information, aimed at bringing price and quality information about the state’s hospitals to consumers in an easy-to-use format. The site is a voluntary effort developed by the Lansing-based Michigan Health and Hospital Association (MHA), a non-profit [...]
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