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Allen G. Breed/APThe New Orleans Health Department has launched its investigation into whether Louisiana’s new law restricting two common pregnancy medications could harm women’s health or delay medical care. -
Julie Dermansky/Julie Dermansky LLCPhilanthropic and government investments in environmental justice are helping nonprofits push back against industrial development.
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Louisiana hospitals have locked up a key drug used to stop women from bleeding out after giving birth as a new state law takes effect Tuesday. -
Legislative leaders say the money is needed to avoid rural hospital closures. -
Lawmakers passed a law designed to limit reproductive rights in Louisiana. But it may also limit patients’ chances of surviving common life events like miscarriages and births. -
Louisiana’s largest health system has sent guidance to some staff on the state’s new anti-abortion law that reclassifies two common pregnancy medications as controlled dangerous substances. -
Nurses at the hospital told Verite News that they are striking following months of stalled negotiations. -
In one New Orleans-area hospital, they are already practicing timed drills, running from delivery rooms to the locked medicine cabinet where controlled substances are stored, to see how long it will take. In one recent drill, it took more than two minutes for doctors and nurses to retrieve misoprostol for a pretend patient who was bleeding out. -
Louisiana’s top expert on maternal health has come out against a new law that will reclassify common pregnancy medications as dangerous controlled substances. -
New Orleans City Council members plan to investigate the impacts of a new Louisiana law that will restrict common pregnancy medications that can also induce abortions. -
A drug that stops post-delivery bleeding will become a controlled dangerous substance on Oct. 1, placing restrictions on quick, life-saving access. -
The new state program— the first of its kind in the U.S. — will give $280,000 from opioid settlement funding to grandparents raising their grandchildren.
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President Joe Biden visited Tulane University on Tuesday and announced $150 million in federal funding for eight cancer research teams across the country. -
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August is National Breastfeeding Month, but the Gulf South has some of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the country. Advocates are trying to change that. -
A new "scorecard" from the Commonwealth Fund on women's health care ranks Louisiana 37th in the U.S. — the highest in the Gulf South region. -
The week-long, free program gives medical professionals tools to provide trauma-informed care — and potentially help with prosecutions. -
Worsening local effects on health and recreation in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin are spurring action on problems that also cause the Gulf of Mexico’s chronic “dead zone.” -
Leitman filmed the Jackson, Mississippi, clinic at the center of the SCOTUS decision on abortion rights for seven years for her documentary, "No One Asked You." -
Driven by climate change, extreme temperatures are forcing parents and camp counselors to change their summer routines to keep kids safe. -
Mississippi lawmakers couldn’t come together to pass a bill that could have expanded Medicaid for thousands of residents. -
Abortion rights advocates say the ban will likely force many to travel farther for abortion care and endure pregnancy and childbirth against their will.
