The U.S. is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, with a total of 1,288 cases nationally and ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Louisiana grassroots organization dedicated to fact-based public health is working with physicians around the state to prevent the nomination of a harsh critic of ...

A new COVID-19 variant named "Nimbus" has been detected in the U.S. and is spreading rapidly. Here's what to know about ...

In contrast, the World Health Organization recommends one primary care physician per 1,000 people. The average ratio of doctors to patients in Louisiana is 1,441 people per physician .

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020, or nearly one in six deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Louisiana has higher cancer ...

Since 2003, there have been roughly 900 human bird flu infections reported globally, and about half of those people have died, according to the World Health Organization.

According to the latest data collected by the World Health Organization, there have been 939 H5N1 cases detected in humans globally between January 2003 to November 2024. Of those, 464 were fatal ...

It comes nearly a month after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Mpox has infected an estimated 18,000 people and ...

A U.S. patient who had been hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died, the Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday, marking the country's first reported human death from the virus.

A worker arranges UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) humanitarian aid in a UAE plane headed to Egypt’s El-Arish airport on January 24, 2025 at an airport in Dubai, as part of a humanitarian ...