Senate Health and Welfare Committee member Rick Edmonds, R-Baton Rouge, stood firm on making a change to the definition of embryo in Pressly’s proposal. As a state representative, he authored a 2016 ...

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

“That’s measles,” said Kline, an infectious disease expert who recognized the signs from treating hundreds of cases in Uganda ...

Among all the states in the United States, the Pelican State is the third-lowest in terms of life expectancy, per recent ...

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

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

The New Orleans case is in an unvaccinated adult from Region 1, which includes Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard Parish. The ...

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

Where are most measles cases? As of this week, 884 measles cases in 30 states have been confirmed by the U.S. Centers for ...