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In Baton Rouge, Existing Health Care Disparities Make Vaccine
WEBBeyond Baton Rouge . Nationally, the white population is being vaccinated at much higher rates than the Black population. In late January, Kaiser Health News looked at vaccination data across 23 states, and in each of them there was a major disparity. In some places like West Virginia, white residents are being vaccinated at around double the rate …
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Louisiana ranks ‘worse than average’ for racial, ethnic health
WEBLouisiana. In Louisiana, white people experienced the highest health system performance — a metric composed of 25 different variables — scoring in the 63rd percentile among all population groups nationally. Hispanic people experienced the lowest in the state, scoring in the 21st percentile. The state ranked “worse than average” for all
Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in …
WEBDr. Neelima Sukhavasi, a Baton Rouge OB-GYN, says that doctors are scared. Here, Dr. Sukhavasi poses for a portrait in Baton Rouge, La., on Monday, March 18, 2024. In the wake of Louisiana's abortion ban, pregnant women have been given risky, unnecessary surgeries, denied swift treatment for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies, …
A growing problem in public health is getting people to heed advice
WEBAILSA CHANG, HOST: People are beyond weary of the pandemic, and many are tuning out public health messages. This even as the omicron variant wreaks havoc on hospitals and kills more than 1,500 Americans every day. One of the growing problems in public health right now is getting people to heed advice at all. NPR's Yuki …
Mental health care is hard to find, especially for people with …
WEBThe report found fewer than five active mental health care providers for every 1,000 enrollees. On average, Medicare Advantage has 4.7 providers per 1,000 enrollees, whereas traditional Medicare has 2.9 providers and Medicaid has 3.1 providers for the same number of enrollees. Some counties fare even worse, with not even a single provider for
Louisiana governor reverses last-minute health care budget cut
WEBWallis Watkins / WRKF. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced on Thursday that he restored $100 million in state budget funding to the Department of Health. Lawmakers had cut that funding in a last-minute decision on the final day of this year’s session. Edwards used his line-item veto power to restore the $100 million to health …
Medical Care Is Too Expensive And Difficult To Access In Louisiana
WEBA recently released report, commissioned by State Rep. Mandie Landry through a concurrent resolution in the House and Senate, indicates that the roughly 16,000 incarcerated people living in Louisiana’s eight state-managed prisons face major barriers to accessing adequate health care.. Landry, whose district is in New Orleans, and the …
COVID vaccines added to Louisiana school shots list by Gov. John …
WEBA vaccinator draws a shot of a COVID-19 vaccine. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is moving forward with a Louisiana Department of Health plan to add COVID-19 vaccinations to the list of required immunizations for Louisiana school children, overriding the Republican-controlled state legislative committee that voted against the rule last week.
Bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for Louisiana
WEBA controversial bill that would have banned gender-affirming health care for youth in Louisiana died in a Senate Committee on Wednesday. The defeat marks a significant victory for Louisiana’s transgender community and goes against a growing trend among other Republican states to restrict youth access to gender-affirming care, which …
Folk Medicine Meets Modern Medicine Along the Atchafalaya
WEBTravis Lux primarily contributes science and health stories to Louisiana's Lab. He studied anthropology and sociology at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and picked up his first microphone at the Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole, MA.
How Women’s Health Fared During This Year’s Legislative Session
WEBThe Louisiana State Capitol. March 2021. Women’s health got a boost from lawmakers this year, much of it focused on pregnancy and birth and domestic abuse. But a handful of measures with significant implications for women's safety and access to care failed. Here’s a rundown of what did — and didn’t — make it out of the Capitol.
Indoor mask guidance issued as Louisiana officials warn of
WEBA mask and testing guidance similar to Monday’s have been issued before by Louisiana officials. Just before the worst of the delta surge — and weeks after the statewide mask mandate had been removed for the first time since it had been put into effect in 2020 — officials issued an indoor mask guidance. Shortly after, a mask …
How Louisiana’s abortion ban has changed pregnancy care in the …
WEBPatrick Madden /WWNO. Ochsner Baptist Medical Center. March 25, 2020. Pregnancy care in Louisiana has changed dramatically. In the years since the state passed its near-total ban on abortions in 2022, doctors have had to re-evaluate how they care for pregnant women. Many fear prison time, or other penalties if they violate the state’s new …
Hospitals are reminding staff of a Louisiana law: report
WEBMarch 25, 2020. In emails, the heads of Louisiana’s biggest hospital systems reminded their staff of an existing state law: people who get illegal abortions and seek medical care for abortion complications in Louisiana are required to be reported to the state. The law requires hospitals to report all abortion complications, even if the
Looking for a COVID test in Louisiana
WEBIf you’re in need of one amid the omicron surge, here are some resources for tracking down a COVID-19 test: WALGREENS AND CVS. The single largest provider of COVID-19 tests in the state is Walgreens, which has partnered with the state department of health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide COVID-19 …
Louisiana plans to spend $196 million to check Medicaid
WEBGov. John Bel Edwards’ administration has proposed spending $195.8 million to reach out to Medicaid enrollees and check whether they meet the qualifications for the public health insurance program during a massive Medicaid disenrollment over the next year.. The state plans to spend $106.6 million of federal funding in the current budget …
Nonprofit sues La. on behalf of foster youth; Jewish leaders push …
WEBMembers of Jews Against Gassing on the steps of the State Capitol, Monday, honor Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Louisiana’s death penalty law got a big rewrite earlier this year as part of the state’s special session. Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill that adds electrocution and nitrogen
With Changes to Sanitary Code, More Homemade Cane Syrup Hits …
WEBPoirier's Pure Cane Syrup. Charles Poirier's backyard shed where he makes his syrup. The sugar cane mill (back right, painted red) will extract sixty gallons of juice from five hundred stalks of cane in roughly forty minutes. Cane juice flows down a stainless steel funnel from the mill to the iron kettle indoors.
Why former NIH Director Francis Collins went public with his …
WEBOne of those people was Dr. Francis Collins. At the time, he was the director of the National Institutes of Health. Well, we learned on Friday that Dr. Collins is going through his own health crisis right now. He's been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, and he wrote all about it in an article published at The Washington Post
Louisiana lawmakers regret passing budget with last-minute $100 …
WEBLouisiana lawmakers are regretting a last-minute $100 million reduction to health care in the new state budget, including some who helped negotiate and pass the budget on a chaotic final day of session. They are asking for the cut to be vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards, who has already said he will use every means at his disposal to …
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