After weeks of confusion about access to the latest COVID-19 vaccine and murky guidance from federal officials, Louisiana ...

After weeks of confusion over vaccine guidance, new federal recommendations say COVID-19 vaccines are available for everyone ...

The problem is that many doctors are unfamiliar with Chagas disease, and that this bug lives in Louisiana, especially in ...

With CDC disease tracking paused during the shutdown, states face data gaps as flu, RSV, and COVID-19 seasons begin.

In a statement, CDC acting director Jim O’Neill wrote, “Informed consent is back. CDC’s 2022 blanket recommendation for ...

The Louisiana Department of Health will not hold public flu vaccine events or promote it through advertising for the second year in a row under Gov. Jeff Landry.

Kissing bugs, also known as eastern-cone-nose bugs or triatomine, can bite faces and infect humans with Chagas disease. Chagas is a parasitic infection that can cause fever, aches and, in severe cases ...

An annual conference about infectious diseases is seeing a dramatic attendance decline, in part because Centers for Disease ...

In Louisiana, the risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes is more than four times higher than in California, according to a new report from ...