Sarabeth and Amelia Irwin are believed to be the first set of conjoined twins in Michigan to be successfully separated.
Author: Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press
A wife gets answers from a nurse who saw her husband die at Detroit hospital during coronavirus pandemic
The pain of not knowing what happened to her husband after she dropped him off at a Detroit Hospital, torments Denise Chandler. A former nurse helps.
Family ravaged by coronavirus begged for tests, hospital care but was repeatedly denied
Gary Fowler went to the emergency rooms of three Detroit hospitals in the weeks leading up to his death, begging for a coronavirus test.
A tiny mosquito bite took away this Michigan teen’s ability to talk, walk. Now, she fights.
Savanah DeHart, the youngest person in Michigan to get EEE in 2019, is learning to communicate, sit up and move her arms at a rehab hospital.
17-year-old is first vape-injured patient in U.S. to undergo double lung transplant
The 17-year-old boy is believed to be the first person in the United States with vaping-related lung injury to receive a double lung transplant.
Detroit hospital says its doctors performed first double-lung transplant in vape-injured patient
Doctors at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital have performed a double-lung transplant on a person with a vaping-related lung injury.
Michigan to fight deadly mosquito virus with aerial spraying
Aerial pesticides will be sprayed in 14 Michigan counties to kill mosquitoes, as officials try to combat the threat of Eastern equine encephalitis.
Russia seeks prisoner exchange, but stops short of swap for Paul Whelan of Michigan
Russia called on the U.S. to free Konstantin Yaroshenko in exchange for Americans it has imprisoned. But accused Michigan spy Paul Whelan isn’t part of the deal.
Hotel manager’s Facebook offer: Need an abortion? Come to Michigan.
After several states passed new abortion laws, Shelley O’Brien offered any woman struggling with access a free place to stay and a ride to the clinic.
Aging baby boomers are about to push Alzheimer’s disease rates sky high
About5.8 million Americansnow have Alzheimer’s disease. That number will climb to at least 13.8 million by 2050,a 138%rise with a heavy toll.