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.
Emergent Biosolutions has announced that the federal government has extended a contract with the company to continue to produce anthrax vaccines.
Schools across Michigan are shutting down because of the appearance of a flu like illness. Kalamazoo County Health Department says several districts in the county will shut down for the next two days, and individual schools in two other districts are shutting down, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette.
Scientists from the U.S. Army, U.S. Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease, Thai officials and two private companies released startling results of a 16,000 person HIV vaccine trial. A vaccine combination of two failed vaccines created immunity to HIV in just over 30 percent of those vaccinated. While 30 percent is no where near the [...]
Researchers at Duke University have found a potent and rare antibody they believe may be a key to developing a vaccine for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The anti-body, called 2F5-like antibody, has been shown to be effective in removing up to 80 percent of virus in an infection.
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