The LA40by2030 Tour started its initiative in 2020. The tour is currently traveling the ten regions divvied up by the Louisiana Department of Health. “We’re focusing mainly on the more smaller rural ...

As Republicans look to cut more than a trillion dollars out of the federal budget, some state leaders and health care ...

Louisiana Surgeon General Dr. Ralph L. Abraham issued an internal memo stating that the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) would “encourage each patient to discuss the risks and benefits of ...

The coming weeks and months will offer clues about the direction Kennedy will take US vaccine policy–signs as to whether ...

Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham said the best protection against the measles is the vaccine as the outbreak expands in neighboring Texas.

Sepulvado was Louisiana's oldest prisoner on death row at 81. "The idea that the State was planning to strap this tiny, frail ...

The American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and cardiovascular risk ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Local Family Physician Dr. Donald Higgins says vaccines and immunizations continue to be an important part of medicine. Higgins spoke with 7NEWS after the Louisiana ...

Louisiana lawmakers have prefiled a bill that would repeal the Louisiana Department of Health’s water fluoridation program, Beauregard News reported Feb. 21. Public water systems with at least 5,000 ...

Louisiana's top leaders are sending mixed signals about vaccines just as the nation's flu numbers are hitting historic highs.

Two babies in Louisiana died in the past six months of a respiratory illness that doctors say is preventable. The head ...