Just 13 percent of children have gotten the latest Covid shot, according to the most recent CDC data. And after Republicans, ...

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

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

Whooping cough is also known as pertussis and is spread from person to person through the air when someone coughs or sneezes, ...

Whooping cough cases are rising, and doctors are bracing for yet another tough year. There have been 8,485 cases reported in ...

In 2019, there was a total of 1,274 reported cases, CDC data shows. If the U.S. surpasses this figure, it would lead to the ...

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

Autism diagnoses are continuing to increase in the U.S., now affecting one in 31 children, according to a new CDC report ...

Sociologists who examined the CDC data said it reflects women who delayed having children in their 20s and chose to do so in ...

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

The consequences of the Trump administration’s purge of thousands of federal workers from the Department of Health and Human Services on April 1 are so enormous, they can be difficult to grasp.