Word: michigan
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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The long-divisive issue of whether to grant families of Michigan State University's gay and lesbian employees health and other benefits came to a relatively quiet end Friday, following a decision by the MSU Board of Trustees...
...colleges now permit students to avoid temptation and rowdy behavior by living in alcohol-free dorms. "It's an effort to break into the campus alcohol culture and say it is possible to have a fulfilling college experience without drinking," says Alan Levy, a spokesman for the University of Michigan, where 30% of undergrads choose the alcohol-free option...
DIED. JANET GOOD, 73, Dr. Jack Kevorkian's aide who championed the right to die and started Michigan's Hemlock Society; in an apparent suicide, while suffering from cancer; in Farmington Hills, Mich...
Last week the Centers for Disease Control reported that a man in a Michigan hospital had contracted a staph infection that even vancomycin could not stem. It was just the second report of a vancomycin-resistant staph infection. The first case occurred in Japan last year when a baby became ill after heart surgery...
...using several antibiotics simultaneously, the doctors in Michigan brought their patient's infection under control. Even so, health officials suspect that vancomycin-resistant staph will soon appear in other U.S. hospitals as well. Calling for stringent antiseptic procedures, they urged doctors to report cases of vancomycin-resistant staph promptly...