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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Louisiana grassroots organization dedicated to fact-based public health is working with physicians around the state to prevent the nomination of a harsh critic of ...

Since 2003, there have been roughly 900 human bird flu infections reported globally, and about half of those people have died, according to the World Health Organization.

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 contrast, the World Health Organization recommends one primary care physician per 1,000 people. The average ratio of doctors to patients in Louisiana is 1,441 people per physician .

A U.S. patient who had been hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died, the Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday, marking the country's first reported human death from the virus.

The World Health Organization declared recent outbreaks of a new form of mpox, previously referred to as "monkeypox," in Africa as a global health emergency. Mpox outbreak declared global emergency.

The U.N. World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of ...

Since 2003, there have been roughly 900 human bird flu infections reported globally, and about half of those people have died, according to the World Health Organization.

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 ...