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The AAP recommends that parents immunize their children against 17 different illnesses between birth and adolescence. As of earlier this week, that number also reflected federal health guidance, but the CDC has now cut that to eleven.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is using opioid settlement funds to invest in recovery housing. The goal of the project is to offer a stable living situation for people with substance use disorder.

The state health department has defunded the organization that oversaw foster care placements in Kent County for the past eight years.

State Sen. Sylvia Santana didn’t completely write off the possibility of the state temporarily covering funding for SNAP recipients, but she acknowledged it could be an uphill climb.

The agency that’s overseen foster care cases in Kent County for most of the past decade is suing the state health department for eliminating its funding, while judges that oversee child abuse and neglect cases in the county called the lack of transition planning a “child welfare emergency.”

The previous House budget would have cut Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy by 19%, while the adopted budget reduces the agency’s funding by 7%.

A new audit of the MDHHS' Office of Recipient Rights shows a delay in responding to some complaints of alleged abuse, neglect and injuries at psychiatric hospitals.

An uptick of Lyme disease in Michigan shows the importance of tick surveillance, now that tick populations have increased across the state, public health officials say.

The new bed management tool is a central database with up-to-date information about where space is available in residential treatment centers statewide.

Last week, President Donald Trump signed legislation into law slashing a trillion dollars in federal funding for state Medicaid programs over the next decade.