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 ...

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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 ...

Twenty years after New Orleans area hospitals faced fatal infrastructure failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's health care facilities are still extremely vulnerable to flood ...