Gov. Jeff Landry might put a former Louisiana agency leader who was charged with lying to a grand jury under oath back in his ...

The department received “a series of emails that were slightly difficult to interpret” from the federal government that they ...

There have been 6,600 pertussis cases reported in the US in 2025, almost four times the number at this point last year.

The cuts target mental health and substance use programs, including crisis services, according to Louisiana health officials.

Health experts are warning that whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is making a dangerous comeback. Cases are rising ...

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

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Michael Harrington, the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, has retired, the agency announced Thursday afternoon. Drew Maranto has been named interim ...

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 ...

Willis Knight Health in Shreveport welcomed the first Nuclear Oncology Department to northwest Louisiana on the 84th ...

They just never stop coughing.” In Louisiana, two infants have died of pertussis in the past six months, according to the state health department, the first deaths from the disease in the state ...