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The JAMA Pediatrics study has echoes of the Flint water crisis
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Wayne and Ingham counties are planning to work with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt on plans to forgive county residents who are in debt to health care systems.
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The state criminalizes paid surrogacy and doesn't recognize surrogacy agreements. Numerous families are asking lawmakers to pass bills that would change that.
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The first over-the-counter birth control pill and how it will affect contraceptive accessibility for teenagers, a trip to Hamtramck's Kitab Cafe, and the perspectives of four Palestinian-Americans in Michigan as Israel's bombardment of Gaza continues.
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A new free-standing birthing center is expected to open its doors in April of 2024. Led by midwives, Birth Detroit aims to provide a safe and culturally relevant “full care experience from period to period” for expecting families.
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All the cases so far have been in unvaccinated individuals who traveled abroad — two adults in Washtenaw and Wayne counties, and a child in Oakland County. But officials worry they could help fuel measles outbreaks like those reported in other states.
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Bills to expand insurance coverage of contraceptives and allow pharmacists to prescribe some birth control methods received a hearing before a state House committee.
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Procedural abortions haven’t been available in Grand Rapids since September, when the only clinic providing them in the city closed. But now that the state has repealed some abortion restrictions, more clinics can offer them.
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Today, an analysis of Tuesday's primary election results, the details of a forthcoming, Black-led and woman-led birth center, and the story of a critical civil rights leader in Detroit.
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The five-year, $9.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health will fund study, called “Genetic Variation in Cancer Risk and Outcomes in African Americans.”
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Adeline Hambley's lengthy legal fight with county commissioners over pandemic-era mask mandates concluded Tuesday with the board bowing to the will of a court-ordered arbitrator.
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The state health department says the case is an Oakland County child, and is associated with international travel. Officials do not think anyone outside the child’s household was exposed.