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PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” can cause cancer and problems during pregnancy.
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Dawn Richard’s family lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. More than two decades later, her parents are still plagued by environmental woes.
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A lawsuit to block enforcement of Louisiana's new ban on transgender health care procedures for anyone under 18 was announced Monday by LGBTQ+ advocates.
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Louisiana has very high flu activity. There is high activity in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico and South Carolina and the District of Columbia.
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The loss of specialized doctors due to the influx of anti-LGBTQ laws is the latest blow to a region already dealing with a shortage of health care providers.
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An updated version of the 2016 play is being staged in an unexpected place — the capitol of a state with a near-total abortion ban.
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Nurses are demanding increased staffing through better pay and benefits, enough supplies to treat patients, a safer workplace and a voice in the hospital’s decision-making process.
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A draft agreement obtained by The Associated Press shows that Louisiana health officials were open to stronger rules, including looking at how new industrial plants would harm Black residents.
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More than a dozen states now have near-total abortion bans. Among those states, only Alabama explicitly includes “serious mental illness” as an allowable exception.
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Communities in southeastern Louisiana are bringing fresh water — by barge and by pipeline — to their local water treatment plants, to dilute the briny water brought in by the saltwater wedge.
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Delaney Nolan discusses her report for The Guardian that revealed a spike in heat-related illness calls among New Orleans’ unhoused people this summer.
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For one family of farmers in Louisiana, this year’s record-breaking extreme heat is taking a toll on both their crops and their health.
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Suicide is a leading cause of death in women, and mood and anxiety disorders make perinatal risks more complicated. Dr. Fortney’s work is focused on this issue.
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As abortion access in Louisiana continues to be battled out in court, emergency contraception is still legal here. Advocates are working to make it easier to get — and are bracing for future restrictions.
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CrescentCare, New Orleans best-known health care provider for the LGBTQ+ community, ran out of monkeypox vaccine doses Tuesday and doesn’t know when it will receive more.
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Children as young as 6 months old will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Louisiana this week, just days after federal agencies approved and authorized the shot for the youngest age group.
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The NAACP’s and SPLC’s federal complaint claims that Mississippi didn’t equitably spend its federal COVID-19 relief funds, leaving out communities of color.
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The Louisiana Department of Health will no longer require the state’s day care, K-12 and college students to get the COVID-19 vaccine starting in the 2022-23 school year, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced during a radio program on Wednesday.
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The announcements come after a federal judge voided a nationwide mask mandate for public transportation on Monday.
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Owners of restaurants, bars, gyms and movie theaters across New Orleans breathed a collective sigh of relief Monday after the Mayor LaToya Cantrell administration lifted its vaccine mandate.
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New Orleans’ public schools will no longer report COVID-19 cases to the district’s central office, though state reporting will continue, officials said Monday.
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On the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, take a look back at the Gulf States Newsroom’s coverage of the infectious disease’s impact on the Gulf South region.