BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana ranks as the second-worst state in 2025 for mental health. Soliant Health researchers ranked all 50 U.S. states in a study. It examined their mental and ...

One executive order that President Donald Trump signed during his first week in office was the withdrawal of the U.S. from ...

The newly reported H5N9 strain was found Monday at a duck farm in Merced County, California, according to the World ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder.

A memo to senior leaders at the CDC told them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations ...

New research from Tulane University has identified a unique genetic signature in bacteria that can predict their likelihood of developing antibiotic resistance, a finding that can help quickly ...

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

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Jennifer Avegno, director of the New Orleans Health Department, about a new map created to ...

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 ...

The case of the Canadian teen and the death of a Louisiana man are stark reminders of bird flu’s capacity to ignite serious ...

President Joe Biden's outgoing administration on Thursday announced $211 million in new funding to develop mRNA vaccines against emerging biothreats and said it was accelerating bird flu testing, as ...