Three of the viruses — flu, COVID-19 and RSV — are respiratory viruses and spread from person to person through germ-filled ...

Republican Louisiana state Sens. Mike Fesi and Patrick McMath are sponsoring legislation prohibiting fluoridation of public ...

Louisiana health officials are monitoring measles cases were reported in neighboring states, but so far, no cases have been ...

First death from measles in Texas confirmed and case numbers are rising. Will measles outbreak spread to Louisiana? Here's how to avoid the virus.

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 ...

By Shalina Catlani Stateline More states are loosening vaccine mandates, scaling back vaccine promotion efforts and taking ...

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

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died at approximately 8:45 p.m. local time Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the Louisiana Department ... from a "myriad health issues" and had ...

according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Now a lawsuit filed by 17 states, including Louisiana, challenges the Biden administration's 2024 update to Section 504; the ...

Louisiana legally recognizes covenant marriages, which are marriages that uphold fault-based divorce, but what about no-fault divorce? Learn more here ...

The measles outbreak in Texas has claimed the life of an unvaccinated child, marking the first measles death in the US in a ...

The D1.1 strain of H5N1, now spreading in dairy herds, has a mutation that enhances replication in mammals. Could this be a ...