To help narrow the gap, the Louisiana Department of Health announced $15 million in funding for universities, technical ...

The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, the state health department said Monday. The person who contracted the H5N1 ...

Investigations of abuse and neglect by workers at care facilities can drag on for over a year, a new audit of the Louisiana ...

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 LDH reported one winter weather-related death in the state this year—a 65-year-old man in Rapides Parish who died due to ...

A patient who was hospitalized with the first human case of pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, in Louisiana and the United ...

The Louisiana Department of Health has significant shortcomings in overseeing its adverse actions lists for Certified Nurse ...

All state administrative offices will reopen Friday, Louisiana Division of Administration Commissioner Taylor Barras announced.

Hospital emergency rooms and ambulances continued to operate even as temperatures dropped and South Louisiana was blanketed ...

The Louisiana Department of Health has implemented a new policy that bans promoting vaccines even though Louisiana is ranked #32.

Louisiana’s new law that requires that imported seafood be clearly labeled on packaging and menus will start to be enforced by the Louisiana Department of Health.

A certified nursing assistant used bedsheets to tie two residents with advanced dementia to chairs — but 383 days passed before the Louisiana Department of Health added the employee to a ...