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Michigan still lacks system to provide HIV exposure drug

By | 04.08.11 | 10:21 am | More from The Michigan Messenger

LANSING — A policy directing Michigan health care providers to provide a potentially life saving intervention for people exposed to HIV through consensual or non-consensual sexual activity or drug use has still not been issued by the Michigan Department of Community Health.

“We are in the process of finalizing both More…

Stay Home if You Have Swine Flu, Unless You Work at Wal-Mart

By | 11.04.09 | 9:07 am

During the summer, when swine flu was not yet a widespread reality in the United States, giant retailer Wal-Mart made the news for being in talks with the government about possibly distributing the swine flu vaccine through its extensive network of stores.

But now the swine flu has Wal-Mart More…

Scientific Reports Suggest Possible Link Between Swine Flu and Industrial Pig Farms

By | 05.01.09 | 3:49 pm

Since bloggers at Grist and Biosurveillance first starting pointing to a subsidiary of the U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods as a possible source of the swine flu everyone’s now so panicked about, the mainstream media has started picking up on the story.

Although Smithfield is still denying More…

What Is This, the Bush Administration?

By | 04.13.09 | 10:10 am

That’s what some AIDS advocates are asking following the launch of a new AIDS prevention effort from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Todd Heywood at The Michigan Messenger, TWI’s sister site.

Say It Ain’t So, President-Elect O

By | 11.06.08 | 11:42 am

Some science bloggers are alarmed by predictions in the news that President-elect Barack Obama intends to appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

After eight years in which the Bush administration trashed science to favor a political agenda, these blogger are saying that Kennedy More…

Report: Federal Agencies of Two Minds on Freedom of Speech

By | 10.17.08 | 1:25 pm

Federal agencies have inconsistent media policies when it comes to allowing scientists to share information with journalists, concludes a new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The nonpartisan, nonprofit group issued a “report card” grading 15 federal agencies on their communication policies. Some agencies, it found,  “stifle communication” even More…