Michigan Health Watch

The pandemic produced a mental health crisis for Michigan teens. Experts say music can give therapists a door into teens' emotions.

A federal program that provides COVID shots for under- and uninsured Americans and others is ending, just as updated COVID vaccines are being released.

Michigan is one of just four states with ‘moderate’ levels of COVID-19 detected in wastewater, while many states are seeing ‘high’ or ‘very high’ levels of infection. Case counts in the state are still rising, but more slowly.

For most people, pertussis is a mild illness, but it can be deadly to infants who are too young for a vaccine.

This holiday weekend, close the laptop, fire up the grill and — health officials urge — grab the bug spray.

Grand Blanc-based McLaren Health Care was hit earlier this month, part of a nationwide upswing in cyberattacks in health care.

Doulas serve as guides to new parents, providing support that medical experts heavily praise. Michigan Medicaid began covering their services in 2023, sparking hospital-based programs and expanding availability to under-resourced families.

Moderna and Pfizer are releasing updated vaccines to protect against the KP.2 variant of the omicron COVID-19 virus.

As hundreds of Rite Aid stores close their doors and leave Michiganders with fewer options, experts across the state are helping Bridge answer questions about what to do about your prescriptions.

The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act allowed Medicare to negotiate the prices for 10 common or costly drugs. Those savings — up to 76% on one drug — are on the way for Medicare beneficiaries.

The state has money for drug treatment and recovery services. Now, it’s helping people get to those clinics.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a health advisory amid an uptick in highly transmissible human parvovirus B19 in the U.S. and Europe.

Rite Aid has closed, or made plans to close more than 200 Michigan stores since October. Meanwhile, CVS is more slowly closing stores, and Walgreens will shrink its national footprint, too.

Defying a long-held taboo, Peter Lichtenberg asked older Michiganders to open their bank accounts to him. What he found were sobering links between early memory loss and everyday budget decisions.

Proposed payouts in Kroger opioid settlement money vary from over $2 million for Wayne County — to $10.39 for Union Charter Township. The latest calculations reveal the complexity of what seems a windfall for the state in tackling the drug crisis.

A new program has success targeting twin crises: The worker shortage and opioid crisis, challenging old notions about the reliability of in-recovery workers. The state is paying attention.

McLaren Health Care on Wednesday confirmed that the ‘disruption to our information technology system’ it reported Tuesday was ‘the result of a criminal cyber attack.’

Women shoulder more of the responsibility of caregiving both nationally and in Michigan, according to a new poll. Half of caregivers don’t know about the longtime resource that could help them.

Millions of dollars are coming to help the Upper Peninsula combat opioid addiction, but finding consensus among county governments to pool resources is difficult.

Social work students who promise to work in child welfare can get $5,000 a semester — up to $20,000 — under a new state program aimed at luring new child welfare workers. Unlike tuition loan forgiveness programs to recruit workers, the student decides how to spend the money.