A new Climate and Health Index report places Louisiana at No. 49 overall in climate, health and healthcare, third from the ...

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020, or nearly one in six deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Louisiana has higher cancer ...

In Louisiana, the risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes is more than four times higher than in California, according to a new report from ...

The health system that runs Our Lady of Lourdes hospitals in Lafayette is helping feed some of those affected by the lack of ...

Kissing bugs, also known as eastern-cone-nose bugs or triatomine, can bite faces and infect humans with Chagas disease. Chagas is a parasitic infection that can cause fever, aches and, in severe cases ...