A Louisiana lawmaker says he wants to avoid the scenario that unfolded last year in Alabama, where clinics offering in vitro ...

Teen birth rates were "essentially unchanged in the remaining 33 states" including Louisiana, according to analysis from the ...

The number of measles cases in the U.S. has risen to 884, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data ...

P)resident Trump's Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he will ask the CDC to stop recommending fluoridation of water ...

Autism diagnoses are continuing to increase in the U.S., now affecting one in 31 children, according to a new CDC report ...

On today’s episode of Louisiana Considered, we discuss federal funding cuts to state cultural programs and HIV prevention. We ...

Whooping cough cases are rising, and doctors are bracing for yet another tough year. There have been 8,485 cases reported in 2025, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

In Louisiana, two young infants have died from ... it would be the highest number of whooping cough cases recorded since 1950, CDC data shows. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images Whooping cough cases have ...

Whooping cough is also known as pertussis and is spread from person to person through the air when someone coughs or sneezes, ...

The consequences of the Trump administration’s purge of thousands of federal workers from the Department of Health and Human Services on April 1 are so enormous, they can be difficult to grasp.

SB 2 proponents presented unfounded links between the levels of fluoride in drinking water and autism, low IQ and thyroid ...

Senate Bill 2, sponsored by Sen. Mike Fesi (R-Houma), would repeal the Louisiana Department of Health’s water fluoridation ...