Recent data shows 20 percent of Medicaid patients visit the ER 17 times a year for non-life threatening issues.

A new variant of the bird flu has infected a dairy worker in Nevada marking the state's first human case of the H5N1 avian influenza.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is shifting its focus to the Education and Defense Departments this week as ...

Not only are eggs expensive because of the ongoing bird flu outbreak. Now they are sometimes hard to find. And even when stores do have eggs, consumers might ...

Elon Musk's DOGE has announced it is terminating $881 million worth of Education Department contracts. Stay with Newsweek's ...

Louisiana Department of Health’s Medicaid program announces an emergency room (ER) utilization reduction pilot program launching this month across the 12 parishes comprising Region 4 (Acadiana) and ...

I have the latest influenza-like illness numbers in Acadiana and things are looking better. Early in the season, Louisiana ...

A cancer survivor is a person who has received a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. Being a "survivor" is not the same as ...

The number of confirmed cases of norovirus linked to recalled Louisiana oysters increased to 191. The Louisiana Department of ...

More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans — ranging from the Episcopal Church and ...

Bill Cassidy's vote to support RFK Jr.'s confirmation is an overt attempt to maintain support within the Republican Party.

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...