Opelousas General Health System ranks as one of Louisiana’s best hospitals, recognized for outstanding care, patient experience, and safety on Newsweek’s 2025 list.
Louisiana residents may soon face fewer options in over-the-counter decongestants as the FDA considers removing phenylephrine-based medications. Here’s what you need to know.
In Louisiana it's quite common for us to go "uncovered" especially at home and in the yard but you might want to rethink that strategy on a cruise ship.
When it comes to healthy living, we don't always do our best in Louisiana. A lot of it is the food, but there are other things that we don't do quite as well as other places.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a warning to everyone over a certain kind of smartwatch, and that warning may just apply to you.
A company that makes vitamins has issued a voluntary recall of supplements meant for babies. The recall is due to elevated levels of a certain vitamin, creating a "super dose."
Louisiana Governor-Elect Jeff Landry has named the state Health Department leadership team. Two are Acadiana natives, one from Lafayette and one from Crowley.
We have some fantastic emergency departments in Louisiana, but we don't want our kids to land there during Christmas. Here are 5 gifts to avoid buying.
Unfortunately for Louisiana, we did rank among the states with the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases. The CDC has reported increased sexually transmitted diseases in the United States. according to USN, there have been more than 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, syphilis, and gonorrhea reported in 2021, the most recent year for which data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was reported.
When it comes to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, it's not just about diet and exercise. It's also about the products we use in our daily lives, including laundry detergents. Many commonly available laundry detergents contain toxic ingredients like 1,4-dioxane, SLS/SLES, parabens, phosphates, sulfates, synthetic dyes, optical brighteners, and more. These chemicals can have adverse effects on our health, and they can be absorbed through our skin, our body's largest organ.
The results of a 30-year-long study conducted by the American Heart Association on high blood pressure were just released and the findings are concerning. If you have ever had your blood pressure taken at the doctor's office you were most likely sitting upright. This new study found that doctors may miss "certain health complications" if the patient is not lying on their back when getting their blood pressure taken.