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 ...

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

Louisiana, Missouri and Virginia this weekend reported their first measles cases of the year, not long after the Centers for ...

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

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

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside expert panel will convene on Tuesday after a nearly two-month ...

Whooping cough cases are more than double those seen at the same time last year, with 8,064 cases recorded nationwide so far this year.