HOUGHTON – Students, educators, clinicians, and community members gathered virtually for the UP Health Science and Medicine Summer Lecture last week. The quarterly lecture series aims to build stronger academic-clinical partnerships needed to improve rural health across the Upper Peninsula. ...
BLACK RIVER — The continuing battle against sea lampreys soon will come to locations in the local area. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assessment crew will conduct work in Black River (Gogebic County, MI) July 6 through 15, to estimate the abundance of sea lampreys. The information gathered ...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Gary Peters (D-MI) today introduced a bill to support workers who lose their jobs because global trade has impacted their employers or industry. The Trade Adjustment Assistance For Workers Reauthorization Act of 2021 improves the existing ...
LANSING – A bi-partisan package of bills to combat the opioid epidemic in Michigan was announced today by Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist; Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive and chief deputy for health at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS); Sen. Curt ...
Hancock,- The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department (WUPHD), working in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), is issuing a public health advisory for the Portage Canal near Houghton/Hancock due to a fuel ...
LANSING – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has launched an interactive data dashboard to highlight current trends in drug overdoses among Michigan residents, and to monitor the use of overdose prevention and substance use disorder treatment services. The new ...