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In Baton Rouge, Existing Health Care Disparities Make Vaccine

WEBBeyond Baton Rouge . Nationally, the white population is being vaccinated at much higher rates than the Black population. In late January, Kaiser Health News …

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A growing problem in public health is getting people to heed advice

WEBAILSA CHANG, HOST: People are beyond weary of the pandemic, and many are tuning out public health messages. This even as the omicron variant wreaks …

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How Women’s Health Fared During This Year’s Legislative Session

WEBThe Louisiana State Capitol. March 2021. Women’s health got a boost from lawmakers this year, much of it focused on pregnancy and birth and domestic abuse. …

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Louisiana governor reverses last-minute health care budget cut

WEBWallis Watkins / WRKF. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced on Thursday that he restored $100 million in state budget funding to the Department of Health. …

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Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in …

WEBDr. Neelima Sukhavasi, a Baton Rouge OB-GYN, says that doctors are scared. Here, Dr. Sukhavasi poses for a portrait in Baton Rouge, La., on Monday, March …

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New $100M cancer facility will be built at Our Lady of the Lake in

WEBPublished October 4, 2021 at 4:26 PM CDT. Our Lady Of The Lake Regional Medical Center. Our Lady of the Lake Regional Center plans to break ground on a $100 million …

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Bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for Louisiana

WEBA controversial bill that would have banned gender-affirming health care for youth in Louisiana died in a Senate Committee on Wednesday. The defeat marks a …

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COVID vaccines added to Louisiana school shots list by Gov. John …

WEBA vaccinator draws a shot of a COVID-19 vaccine. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is moving forward with a Louisiana Department of Health plan to add COVID …

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Medical Care Is Too Expensive And Difficult To Access In Louisiana

WEBA recently released report, commissioned by State Rep. Mandie Landry through a concurrent resolution in the House and Senate, indicates that the roughly …

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Folk Medicine Meets Modern Medicine Along the Atchafalaya

WEBTravis Lux primarily contributes science and health stories to Louisiana's Lab. He studied anthropology and sociology at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and picked …

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Louisiana's medical marijuana program is slow moving despite …

WEBThe Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee held a hearing on medical marijuana programs Wednesday. Today, the House’s Medical Marijuana …

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Indoor mask guidance issued as Louisiana officials warn of

WEBA mask and testing guidance similar to Monday’s have been issued before by Louisiana officials. Just before the worst of the delta surge — and weeks after the …

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Louisiana plans to spend $196 million to check Medicaid

WEBGov. John Bel Edwards’ administration has proposed spending $195.8 million to reach out to Medicaid enrollees and check whether they meet the qualifications …

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Looking for a COVID test in Louisiana

WEBThe first testing site for the spring semester will be held at the Akili Academy of New Orleans from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and the Orleans Parish School Board offices …

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Nonprofit sues La. on behalf of foster youth; Jewish leaders push …

WEBMembers of Jews Against Gassing on the steps of the State Capitol, Monday, honor Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Louisiana’s death penalty law got …

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How Louisiana’s abortion ban has changed pregnancy care in the …

WEBPatrick Madden /WWNO. Ochsner Baptist Medical Center. March 25, 2020. Pregnancy care in Louisiana has changed dramatically. In the years since the state …

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Hospitals are reminding staff of a Louisiana law: report

WEBMarch 25, 2020. In emails, the heads of Louisiana’s biggest hospital systems reminded their staff of an existing state law: people who get illegal abortions and seek …

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Catherine, Princess of Wales, announces she is undergoing …

WEBCatherine, Princess of Wales, has cancer, she announced in a video message released by Kensington Palace on Friday, and is in the early stages of …

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With Changes to Sanitary Code, More Homemade Cane Syrup Hits …

WEBPoirier's Pure Cane Syrup. Charles Poirier's backyard shed where he makes his syrup. The sugar cane mill (back right, painted red) will extract sixty gallons of juice …

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Louisiana lawmakers regret passing budget with last-minute $100 …

WEBLouisiana lawmakers are regretting a last-minute $100 million reduction to health care in the new state budget, including some who helped negotiate and pass the …

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