Verite News’ reporters tested soil in more than 80 playgrounds for lead contamination. Even in trace amounts, lead exposure in children can result in lower IQs, learning challenges, and behavioral iss...

The Trump administration’s abrupt shift in federal funding has reached into Louisiana’s research institutions.

A 54-year-old mechanic called Pathways to Coverage a “great program” at the governor’s press conference. But after getting kicked off the health insurance program for low-income Georgians twice, burea...

No one is charged with enforcing requirements for hundreds of millions in Louisiana's opioid settlement money.

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The soaring price of eggs is a ripple effect of an ongoing outbreak of avian influenza, also known as H5N1 or bird flu, which has spread from wild birds to dairy and poultry farms, infected cats, and ...

A Port Allen grand jury on Friday indicted a New York doctor after she filled an online prescription request for for an abortion pill. A warrant has been issued for the doctor's arrest, the district a...

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Dozens injured in the Bourbon Street attack are irrevocably altered, with a long road ahead as they attempt to heal. People in their 20s are learning how to walk again. Others are undergoing grueling ...

She is remembered by her family and friends as a joyful, spontaneous person who loved to joke, laugh and dance. The single mother was devoted to her five-year-old son.

“We’re being scrappy," team lead for Tulane's cancer research contract Dr. J. Quincy Brown said. “It’s a white whale. This problem is so freaking hard.”

Officials have not yet released a list of names, but here's what we know so far.

The Blood Center of New Orleans is urgently calling for blood donations after a mass casualty event on New Year's Day left 10 dead and 35 injured, depleting local blood supplies.

“As you’re walking down the street, you can just look and see bodies, just bodies of people, just bleeding, broken bones.”

Farmers, duck hunters and others should take extra precautions handling animals and animal products

At Children’s Hospital New Orleans, that has resulted in a full hospital across departments. The hospital has 34 NICU beds and currently 50 babies in need of care.

The person is from southwest Louisiana and currently hospitalized.

The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in New York has prompted health care companies to rethink and increase security for executives. Big health insurers have taken down photos of their top

About one-third of dolphins studied had drugs detectable in their blubber. How did it get there?

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