The World Health Organization recommends a C-section rate between 10% and 15%. In Louisiana in 2023, 36.1% of live births were Cesarean deliveries - well above the recommendations.

A Louisiana grassroots organization is working with physicians around the state to prevent the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Although the threat to the public remains low, the CDC says, the fatal case in Louisiana raises concerns about H5N1 in humans. Since 2003, 954 confirmed cases of human H5N1 have been reported to the World Health Organization, and about half of those people ...

The World Health Organization recommends a C-section rate between 10% and 15%. In Louisiana in 2023, 36.1% of live births were cesarean deliveries. In the United States in 2023, the C-section ...