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.
The U.S. Food and Drug administration is charging Scenic View Diary of Hamilton, Michigan with selling dairy cows that contain unsafe levels of illegally administered antibiotics. In a Aug. 31 complaint filed in Grand Rapids federal court the U.S. Dept. of Justice charges that despite numerous warnings over the last eight years the dairy has [...]
Amid growing concerns about the health effects of chemical exposure, the Obama administration has laid out a plan to strengthen federal regulation of the chemical industry. And new chemical regulations could have special meaning in Michigan.
I recently reported that the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t monitor for dioxin in commercially caught Michigan fish, even when the fish come from areas known to be polluted with the cancer-causing chemical. On its web site the FDA states that it does sometimes test fish and dairy products from grocery stores and distribution centers [...]
Scientists from Koronis Pharmaceuticals are getting ready to enter a third phase of clinical studies on a drug they believe forces the virus to over-replicate and create errors in the genetic make up the virus, ultimately destroying the virus in the human body.
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