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.
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 [...]
Well, isn’t this special… My good friend Pope Benedict XVI announced that condoms are not the way to address the AIDS crisis in Africa. But wait, he didn’t stop there.
The State of Michigan has ordered Flint, Mich. resident Gary Johnson to get married to his partner Rebecca Witt, or pay $500 a month to pay off the medical costs of the birth of the couple’s daughter. The total birthing bill was $3,800, and was paid by the state through Medicaid.
In an e-mail exchange with Richard Cole, chair of the Michigan State University Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing told Michigan Messenger that he agrees with his colleagues from the Olin Health Center that the controversial Durex condom ads are not responsible.
Last week’s revelation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that one-quarter of teen-age girls have at least one sexually transmitted disease came as no surprise to some southeast Michigan health providers, who say such an epidemic is the fruit of a widespread failure to teach teens about sex. The study, released last Tuesday at [...]
A new University of Michigan study has found that administering the human papillomavirus vaccine based on a woman’s risk factors could keep the vast majority of eligible women from getting the cancer-fighting vaccine. The results support a federal recommendation that all females ages 11 to 26 should get the vaccine, the study’s lead researcher said. [...]
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