Within the next two years, schools and childcare centers throughout Michigan will need to convert to filtered faucets or filtered bottle-filling stations for drinking water, under legislation approved in the Senate Thursday.

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 04/18/23) In the midst of the back and forth between the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer administration and the then-GOP-controlled Legislature over COVID-19 nursing home deaths, the Macomb County prosecutor launched an investigation into that issue within his jurisdiction.

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Licensed pharmacists in Michigan would be permitted to continue ordering and administering vaccines to individuals 2.5-years-old and over without a physician's oversight, under legislation

The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday approved Narcan, the drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, to be sold without a prescription, which the state health department said would help tremendously.

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 02/02/2023) "Is public health prepared for the future?” was a question posed and answered Thursday by Michigan Association of Local Public Health Executive Director Norm Hess. The answer, he said, is no.