Gov. Jeff Landry appoints Drew Maranto as interim head of the Louisiana Department of Health following the retirement of ...

Louisiana will have to replace the agency leader in charge of the largest budget in state government, as the state health ...

Michael Harrington, the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, has retired, the agency announced Thursday afternoon ...

More than half the funds spent under a Medicaid incentive program in Louisiana designed to improve health access and outcomes ...

Deborah Gurgel Smith of LSU Health Shreveport School of Allied Health Professions discusses ramifications of the State Health ...

Two Louisiana State senators have proposed a Bill that would stop water districts from adding fluoride to drinking water.

Louisiana is seeing an alarming rise in whooping cough cases, with the state’s Department of Health reporting two infant deaths within the last six months.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB/LDH) - CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital and Rapides Regional Medical Center have once again been ...

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F ... which is why many local governments have added fluoride ...

The Louisiana Department of Health failed to properly oversee some $2.4 billion in Medicaid spending aimed at improving the health of the state’s neediest patients, according to a new report ...