Michigan medicine

Michigan Medicine — the University of Michigan's health care system — has told Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan that it will stop accepting its non-U of M affiliated insured customers, if a new five-year contract isn't in place by June 30.

Sleep specialist Dr. Mehwish Sajid joined Morning Edition host Doug Tribou to talk about the most common sleep problems and what we can all do to improve our sleep.

At least 25 million American adults suffer from sleep apnea. For our series Mornings in Michigan, we visited a sleep clinic as one patient went through an overnight test.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says the health system's decision is not only "cowardly," it may violate the state's antidiscrimination law.

President Donald Trump said he fired an MSU professor from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors despite having no legal authority to do so. Also, Michigan Medicine has ended its gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. Then, how federal funding cuts to the arts have affected productions in Michigan.

The University of Michigan is the latest major healthcare provider to announce it will no longer offer gender-affirming care for minors under the age of 19, because of mounting pressure from the Trump administration.

The lawsuit claims that Michigan Medicine has a significant pay gap between male and female physician assistants—with women making about $9,000 a year less than men on average, despite similar credentials and experience.

The Life Sciences Orchestra is composed entirely of members of the medical and life sciences community at the University of Michigan. Last week, the group celebrated their 25th anniversary with a concert.

So far, several Michigan health systems say they haven't had to delay surgeries, unlike hospitals in other states.

The union representing some 2,700 respiratory therapists, phlebotomists and other health care workers said it reached a tentative, three-year agreement with the health system on Monday night.