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

Three West Tennesseans are charged in part of the largest Justice Department Health Care Fraud takedown in history.

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

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

Washington is an emeritus member of the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine’s Alumni ...

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

For Louisiana lawmakers, access to local food – such as through the Biden-era program that the Trump administration cut – is ...

More than half of the proposed federal savings — about $427 billion — would come from states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, including Louisiana.

Feeding Louisiana, the state association representing five food banks, is concerned about the potential loss of 3.7 million meals that the food bank will no longer receive from the USDA due to ...

SWLA, La. (KPLC) - Louisiana has had its first confirmed human case of the West Nile Virus this year. We don’t know much ...

In Louisiana, the cuts impacted 13 different nonprofit programs that for years have depended on the agency to pay its member ...

Senate Bill 96, authored by Sen. Patrick McMath, R-Covington, would require the Louisiana Department of Health to reimburse providers for partial hospitalization services — an outpatient level ...