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 new federal funding formula from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta will result in a reduction of $2.1 million in federal funding for the state of Michigan for HIV testing and prevention by 2014.
Researchers have developed a simple microchip which is capable of successfully identifying HIV and syphilis with less than a drop of blood.
Levels of heavy metals have increased in water samples being conducted along the Kalamazoo River and Talmadge Creek nearly a year after an oil pipeline ruptured in the area spewing an estimated one million gallons of oil into the waterways.
On Sunday, the Detroit Free Press published an editorial calling on Detroit Mayor David Bing to confront the AIDS problem in that city. The editorial notes that no chief executive of Michigan’s largest city has seriously addressed the issue since then-Mayor Dennis Archer in 2001. The Free Press says Bing should participate in the annual [...]
The Michigan House Health Policy Committee Tuesday voted unanimously to forward a controversial piece of legislation that will change the way HIV testing is conducted in Michigan to the full House for a vote, where it may or may not be amended to address serious medical and legal concerns.
A 54-year-old Isabella county woman has been charged under Michigan’s HIV-disclosure law. Valeria Lynn Johnson, of Rosebush, was charged Wednesday afternoon in Isabella County Circuit Court, reports the Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun. She is accused of failing to tell a 45-year-old Traverse City man that she was HIV-positive before engaging in sex with him. Police [...]
Denise Bryan, STD and HIV supervisor for the Kent County Health Department, is excited about the county’s new HIV testing program, and believes it will raise testing rates in the county. The Ambassador Program provides individuals rewards in the form of gift cards for gasoline or groceries for coming in to the department for a [...]
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.
The City of Detroit in partnership with the Detroit based nonprofit NextEnergy, an alternative energy research group, have placed a bid to get a federal Department of Energy wind turbine testing plant built in the city, according to a Detroit Free Press report. While the testing plant will be mainly for research, if the city [...]
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.
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