healthcare

Former President Donald Trump’s “concepts of a plan” for an alternative to Obamacare are concerning, say Michigan doctors with the Committee to Protect Health Care.

From mosquitoes to sewer overflows, the heat and moisture of a changing climate are creating new health threats in the Great Lakes region, prompting a call to educate residents and doctors about the risks.

A report on Michigan's law requiring parental consent for teens to access abortion care, a preview of the Freep Film Fest this weekend, the environmental importance of vernal pools during spring, and an up close encounter with a rare and stinky plant

Nurses have been telling lawmakers that hospital understaffing is putting patient lives at risk. They want Michigan to follow California and Oregon and institute mandatory staffing ratios.

Following an 11 week strike, the UAW and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan have reached a tentative verbal agreement.

Michigan Radio's Kate Wells discusses the surge in out-of-state patients coming to Michigan for abortions.

Hospitals are seeing ongoing staffing shortages. But they've also seen rising profits. We talk about how and how much hospitals profited during COVID–19.

A Wisconsin-based tribe trying to reclaim land sovereignty, Medicaid disenrollment, the Drive SAFE bill package, and an opera singer with roots in Michigan.

An ER nurse in Traverse City talks about the unprecedented stress nurses and other hospital staff are facing right now. Plus, a nursing researcher weighs in on the solutions to healthcare staffing shortages.

Hospitals say they are losing nurses, direct care aides and other necessary staff to early retirements or better paying jobs and they don't have the money to lure them back.