Officials have instructed the Department of Health not to promote several vaccines, including COVID-19, influenza and mpox vaccines.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has urged the U.S. Senate — including specifically Sen. Bill Cassidy, a fellow Republican from Louisiana — to support Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy will take his seat Wednesday morning as a member of the Senate Finance Committee as it considers the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a vast bureaucracy charged with improving the health of Americans.

The Louisiana Department of Health confirmed two winter weather-related deaths Friday afternoon after a winter storm this week.

The LDH reported one winter weather-related death in the state this year—a 65-year-old man in Rapides Parish who died due to hypothermia—and advised people to stay inside during the extreme cold and to seek shelter if unhoused.

The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) urges residents to prepare for extreme cold next week as a winter storm system brings freezing temperatures and the possibility

Louisiana's seafood industry is gearing up for a major shift as the state's new labeling law takes effect. The Louisiana Department of Health is set to

The coroners in each parish designated both deaths as weather-related. The hypothermia death is the second one in Louisiana this year. On Jan. 9, the health department reported a 65-year-old Rapides Parish man died from exposure to winter weather conditions.

The rare winter storm that brought record freezing temperature and snowfall in Louisiana caused at least two deaths.

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Hospital emergency rooms and ambulances continued to operate even as temperatures dropped and South Louisiana was blanketed with the most snow it has seen in decades.

The Louisiana Department of Health said no patients have had to be removed from a hospital as a result of the cold or snow. A few patients were transferred between nursing homes because of a ...