Michigan Health Watch

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.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Michigan’s first human West Nile virus case of 2024. The Livingston County resident contracted the virus last month when they traveled to another state.

A young mother with a soft spot for Clif Bars and 'House of the Dragon' is playing a key role in efforts to understand why women are more likely than men to die after heart surgery — and change their odds.

Children receiving care at public health facilities such as community clinics are less likely to receive the HPV vaccine, increasing their odds of developing cervical and oral cancers, according to a new study. Busy doctors and patient demographics may explain why, experts say.

While still inadequate in many communities, addiction services are on the rise, thanks in part to an influx of millions of dollars in opioid settlement funds.

Information for nearly 57,000 patients may have been exposed when hackers were able to remotely access email accounts of three health system employees.

COVID appears on a steady increase again, but health officials stopped collecting data as it grew increasingly imprecise.

The rate of mothers dying as a result of pregnancy has increased dramatically in Michigan, and is far worse for American Indian and Black moms.