BATON ROUGE, LA — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration treatment locator. SAMHSA provides a searchable national...

Baton Rouge, La. — The Louisiana Department of Health today reaffirms its official recommendation that all eligible children receive the...

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has...

A technician prepares COVID-19 coronavirus patient samples for testing at a laboratory in New York's Long Island. Wide scale testing is a...

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia News that Pfizer and BioNTech’s announcement that their...

August is National Immunization Awareness Month, and with childhood immunizations on the decline because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re...

1 in 5 respondents say their alcohol consumption has decreased the longer lockdown has continued. The average American has learned to...

Baton Rouge, La. – July 6, 2020 – Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome announced the opening of several testing sites in East Baton Rouge...

Special incentive encouragesdonation during critical shortage BATON ROUGE – On Thursday, June 18, the Ochsner Bloodmobile will park and...

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) on Thursday reports 2,726 additional COVID-19 cases, bringing the state’s total to...

BATON ROUGE — Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that his request for a statewide Major Disaster Declaration in response to the spread of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is providing guidance for patients to minimize their risk of...

State has high rates of hunger, food insecurity among children and seniors Baton Rouge, La. – National Nutrition Month, observed each...

BATON ROUGE, La – Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome’s initiative to expand health care access and quality jobs in North Baton Rouge...

BATON ROUGE – Ted Alcorn of the Wall Street Journal highlights how Louisiana's plan for a statewide elimination of Hepatitis C could...

For first time in 2019, West Nile Virus detected in EBR Parish

By Glenn Ellis There is no disagreement that African Americans have worse health outcomes across the board. Researchers, scientists,...

Graduate student Shahab Haghayegh has long had trouble sleeping. But when the biomedical engineering student began his doctoral program...

Experts say not all plant-based diets are the same. They offer specific advice on how to get the most out of your nutrition plans Type 2...

THE STAGGERING AMOUNT of money the U.S. spends on health care each year – expected to reach about $6 trillion by 2027 – is being driven...