BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Doctors in Louisiana say more and more teenagers and pre-teens are getting diagnosed with ...

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention July 7 announced ( it is streamlining H5N1 bird flu updates with its routine ...

Opioids accounted for 86 percent of all drug overdose deaths in the state with the highest overdose mortality rate.

The Louisiana Department of Health confirmed Louisiana’s first human case of West Nile virus this year in an individual from Livingston Parish. The person was hospitalized due to complications from ...

In the two-hour hearing, Monarez was sharply questioned about Kennedy’s recent move to fire all 17 members of a crucial committee that evaluates and recommends vaccines, his downplaying of the risks ...

Gov. Jeff Landry and U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed a Louisiana bill tied to a national health initiative known as Make America Healthy Again (MAHA).

RFK Jr. turned the CDC's vaccine committee into an anti-vaccine panel, but it still heard evidence that his campaign against ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted on Thursday to recommend infants receive a newer monoclonal antibody shot for ...

In April, the CDC’s influential Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended expanding RSV vaccination to ...

The U.S. has hit an unwelcome milestone in measles cases this year. The CDC is reporting 1,288 cases across the country. The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.