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

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

Louisiana, Missouri and Virginia this weekend reported their first measles cases of the year, not long after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 800 confirmed cases of the illness ...

Kennedy’s influence is already being felt. In addition to the Utah law and Louisiana’s proposal, the CDC’s 20-person oral health division—which helped administer grants related to ...

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

Organizations working to combat HIV in Louisiana are bracing for potential funding cuts and warning of a possible resurgence of the virus, after the Trump administration eliminated staff at the ...

Republican Bill Cassidy, a U.S. senator and physician from Louisiana, said Kennedy had promised to honor decisions by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.