P)resident Trump's Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he will ask the CDC to stop recommending fluoridation of water ...

Senate Bill 2, sponsored by Sen. Mike Fesi (R-Houma), would repeal the Louisiana Department of Health's water fluoridation ...

Among all the states in the United States, the Pelican State is the third-lowest in terms of life expectancy, per recent ...

Where are most measles cases? As of this week, 884 measles cases in 30 states have been confirmed by the U.S. Centers for ...

SB 2 proponents presented unfounded links between the levels of fluoride in drinking water and autism, low IQ and thyroid ...

On today’s episode of Louisiana Considered, we discuss federal funding cuts to state cultural programs and HIV prevention. We ...

Louisiana, Missouri and Virginia this weekend reported their first measles cases of the year, not long after the Centers for ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside expert panel began a two-day meeting on Tuesday after a nearly ...

Whooping cough cases are more than double those seen at the same time last year, with 8,064 cases recorded nationwide so far this year.

Republican Bill Cassidy, a U.S. senator and physician from Louisiana, said Kennedy had promised to honor decisions by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.