The 232-HELP Healthcare Heroes Meal Fund will provide boxed meals and delivery to our local health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis
Lafayette General and Jennings American Legion Hospital have been involved in a clinical affiliation agreement since 2016. This is the next step toward a merger.
If you're a nurse, a parent or know someone about to have a baby, this local nurse's "I'm Just A Labor And Delivery Nurse" is something you need to read.
It's estimated that near 300,000 Louisiana residents, mainly the working poor, will now be eligible to receive health insurance through Medicaid as a result of the expansion.
It's time to double check your health insurance policy. If you aren't covered you could be paying a penalty on your income tax. A special enrollment period is underway to help you avoid that extra cost.
Treasurer John Kennedy says Lafayette's already thriving health-care industry makes it the ideal place to train new doctors and expand health-care access in the state.
In just about 3 months, the most sweeping changes to America's health care system in 50 years will take effect, and one state health official says we know too little about what the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) will do.
During a visit to the doctor, we almost always grab a waiting-room magazine to take our mind off what's to come. But health officials say those very periodicals could pose a health risk and actually make people sick, particularly if they're left out for a lengthy period of time and handled by multitudes of people.
The health care law of 2010 was the signature legislation of Barack Obama’s first term as President. However, according to a new poll from Gallup, the public is still very divided on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The problem with any drug is the risk of side effects. You know those words they whisper really fast on the drug commercials that usually include death. Believe it or not for many of the ailments that we run to the drug store for, Mother Nature has already found the cure.
You go to see your doctor, he outlines a treatment program for you, you head to the drug store and then boom it hits you! That insurance that you thought paid for your health and medicines won't pay for the medicine your doctor wants you to take. So do you bite the bullet and dig deeper into your budget or do you ask for a generic? Are generic drugs as good as their brand name counter parts? How c