A recent report from a personal finance site has highlighted the costs that smokers can incur over their lifetime.

Here’s how to spend a day exploring Gretna, Louisiana. Fun fact: Gretna, originally known as the village of Mechanikham, was founded by German immigrants in 1836. Today, the German-American Cultural ...

We don’t have answers for all the deadly infectious diseases in the world, a fact made painfully clear Monday as Louisiana reported the nation’s first human death from H5N1, a variation of ...

A map from the CDC shows how high the number of flu cases are across the country. You can see Nebraska is in the very high category. Doctors say those cases started picking up later in the season ...

In a positive finding, the CDC emphasized that there is no evidence the virus has spread from the Louisiana patient to others, and the mutations alone are unlikely to spread from person to person. CDC ...

Teen tobacco use has long been linked to lifelong dependency, with 9 out of 10 cigarette users claiming they picked up their first cigarette before the age of 18. The introduction of e-cigarettes has ...

Background: Increased taxation on alcohol and tobacco is among the cost-effective measures used to deal with the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) globally. Despite adopting such efforts, the ...

CNN is tracking the fires in maps and charts. Here’s a look at the latest available map of the fires. This will automatically update as data becomes available. The California Department of Forestry ...

(Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP, File) (CN) — Louisiana officials asked the Fifth Circuit Tuesday to overturn a lower court finding that the state's congressional map illegally dilutes the Black ...

The patient was over 65 with underlying health conditions and was hospitalized in Louisiana in December. Exposure to a backyard flock and wild birds was identified as the cause. This case is the ...