DETROIT — The state of Michigan must return or destroy dried blood samples from nine newborns or get approval from parents to keep them, according to the latest scathing opinion from a federal judge who found parts of a routine testing program unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludington is not interfering with the practice of […]

Stress isn’t good for our health. Virtually everyone has heard this at some point, whether it’s from a spouse, doctor or well-meaning friend. But isn’t pretty much everyone stressed out? Isn’t being stressed “normal”? Statistics show how common it is to experience high levels of stress on a regular basis, unfortunately. Americans are some of […]

Pregnant women finally have a test to predict preeclampsia, one of the top six causes of maternal death in Georgia, after the Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first of its kind. Preeclampsia is a potentially life-threatening form of high blood pressure that can develop suddenly during pregnancy or following childbirth and quickly turn […]

The American Red Cross, under a federal policy recently finalized by health regulators, will begin accepting blood donations on Monday from gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships without mandates that they first abstain from sex. The Food and Drug Administration guidelines ease decades-old restrictions designed to protect the blood supply from HIV. The agency […]