Rosemary Westwood
Public Health ReporterRosemary Westwood is the public and reproductive health reporter for WWNO/WRKF. She was previously a freelance writer specializing in gender and reproductive rights, a radio producer, columnist, magazine writer and podcast host.
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Two virus-related child deaths have happened in less than a week in Louisiana. Low vaccination rates among adults can leave kids under 11 that can't get the shot more susceptible to the disease. -
Louisiana’s abortion clinics are struggling to keep up with an influx of patients across the state border, after Texas enacted a six-week abortion ban. Louisiana lawmakers could consider passing a similar law.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will hear arguments in December in a case that could see the court overturn or functionally gut Roe v. Wade — the Supreme Court precedent that established constitutional abortion rights — and simultaneously let a restrictive abortion ban take effect in Louisiana.
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City officials are now promising new regulations for independent living centers to fill in what they say is a gap that left hundreds in the sweltering heat and darkness.
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Several nursing homes across Louisiana are losing their licenses and senior living facilities in New Orleans are being shuttered because of deaths and unsafe or substandard living conditions during and after Hurricane Ida.
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Reporter Rosemary Westwood spoke with the director of the New Orleans Health Department, Dr. Jennifer Avengo, about the evacuations of eight seniors apartments in the wake of Hurricane Ida.
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As lights slowly return to Louisiana homes and businesses amid the colossal clean-up effort from Hurricane Ida, Gov. John Bel Edwards is warning that another possible storm could track towards the Gulf Coast.
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Across a coastline battered and torn by Hurricane Ida, a new threat is emerging: the risks that come with trying to survive the recovery. Most of the region was under a heat advisory Wednesday with little indication temperatures would dip meaningfully in the coming days.
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The City of New Orleans issued a curfew beginning Tuesday as mass power outages and significant amounts of debris remain an issue in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.
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Boil water advisories were issued and 911 services were down across southeast Louisiana following what officials are saying is catastrophic damage in the wake of Hurricane Ida.
