Louisiana Department of Health

The Louisiana Department of Health refuses to answer questions from doctors about the state’s abortion ban, making it difficult for physicians to determine what medical care for pregnant people might put them at risk for criminal charges.

Health officials gave out monkeypox vaccines and encouraged everyone — not just the LGBTQ community — to take the virus more seriously at the annual festival.

Louisiana marked a new record high for daily COVID-19 cases reported to the state on Thursday, with 14,007 new cases reported.

Three more probable COVID-19 cases of the omicron variant have been identified in Louisiana, the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) said in a press release Wednesday. Along with one confirmed case, the total of omicron cases in the state is now at four.

Another child has been reported dead from COVID-19 in Louisiana on Monday, the second confirmed fatality in just a handful of days, even as the highly transmissible fourth surge begins to slow.

Theresa Sokol has barely taken a day off since the pandemic began. She’s Louisiana’s Acting State Epidemiologist. In this first-person oral history from…

Dr. Alex Billioux, Louisiana’s assistant secretary of health for the Office of Public Health and a key leader in the response to the coronavirus pandemic,…

Louisiana health officials are reporting a third vaping-related death since August 2019, the first this year.The news comes as the number of…

Louisiana isn't usually considered a trailblazer when it comes to public health policy, but the state's novel plan to treat and cure the vast majority of Hepatitis C cases through an innovative payment structure is being closely watched by other states and health officials around the world.