In Louisiana, people depend on Medicaid more than almost anywhere else in the country, with about one-third of the state ...

Last month, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came to Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge to watch Gov. Jeff Landry ...

There has been widespread concern expressed over the impact Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" could have on American health care.

The FDA will remove “ingestible fluoride prescription drug products” or supplements for children from the market effective ...

Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced criminal charges against five individuals and one company and the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week authorized the mobilization of up to 700 troops to assist federal immigration officials in Florida, Louisiana and Texas in processing detainees at Immigrati… ...

Hurricane Katrina is the deadliest flood event in the U.S. in the past 25 years. The storm crashed into the Gulf Coast and ...

Health officials in Louisiana said Monday that an individual has died from the H5N1 bird flu. The death is the first reported among humans in the United States related to the virus.

As health care workers retire and patients face avoidable delays, Louisiana has launched a scalable strategy to rebuild its workforce. The health care Employment Reinvestment Opportunity Fund ...

In the United States, stroke is the fifth leading cause of death. Louisiana has the fourth-highest mortality rate due to strokes in the nation with 50.2 deaths per 100,000 people, according to ...

The growing measles outbreak in the United States has reached 1,288 confirmed cases in 39 U.S. jurisdictions, the highest in three decades, according to CDC data. Health officials and experts urge ...

The Louisiana indictment charges the defendants with violating federal racketeering statutes and drug trafficking laws. "The purchase of real estate for both indoor and outdoor [marijuana] grows, and ...