More than half the funds spent under a Medicaid incentive program in Louisiana designed to improve health access and outcomes ...

Local public health officials are the front line for responding to any disease outbreak. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, many say that the entrenched politicization of COVID-19 has ...

Five years after the pandemic began, many local health officials say that the politicization of Covid has left them with ...

The U.S. measles outbreak so far has claimed the life of one child, and infected at least 222 people, 33 of whom were ...

Deborah Gurgel Smith of LSU Health Shreveport School of Allied Health Professions discusses ramifications of the State Health ...

Two Louisiana State senators have proposed a Bill that would stop water districts from adding fluoride to drinking water.

The Justice Department dropped a landmark lawsuit alleging that emissions from a Louisiana petrochemical plant pose a danger ...

The Louisiana Department of Health will no longer promote mass vaccination ... has dropped in the last year or so, like many other states in the country. “When vaccination rates drop ...

More states are loosening vaccine mandates, scaling back vaccine promotion efforts and taking other steps likely to lower ...

The Louisiana Department of Health will ... as measles and polio that were once eradicated in the United States. I think this is a public health priority − we keep preventing infectious diseases." ...

In early 2025, the Louisiana Department of Health reported the death of the first patient in the United States with a confirmed case of avian influenza, an individual over 65 years of age who died ...