Rosemary Westwood

The Louisiana State Medical Society and eight other medical organizations are calling for an end to the politicization of vaccines in the wake of a new Louisiana Department of Health policy banning vaccine promotion and events.

A Louisiana mother and a New York doctor have been indicted for allegedly providing abortion medication to a minor, in what’s believed to be the first case of its kind in the country seeking to criminalize the provision of abortion medication obtained through the mail.

The New Orleans Health Department has launched a new map showing which pharmacies in the city stock the drug misoprostol.

A nonprofit watchdog is asking Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill to investigate whether a New Iberia crisis pregnancy center broke state law after it appeared to post the full names, last menstrual periods, and other personal health information of 13 clients online, despite claiming that it follows federal health privacy laws.

The 2024 election was perhaps the biggest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and the results are a mixed bag, including for those living in the South.

A new survey suggests the number of abortions among women in Louisiana may have risen since the state banned nearly all abortions.

In recent years, Catholic bishops have spent millions on campaigns to defeat abortion rights measures at the ballot box. This year, they're taking a dramatically different approach.

Louisiana hospitals have locked up a key drug used to stop women from bleeding out after giving birth as a new state law takes effect Tuesday.

Louisiana’s largest health system has sent guidance to some staff on the state’s new anti-abortion law that reclassifies two common pregnancy medications as controlled dangerous substances.

Louisiana’s top expert on maternal health has come out against a new law that will reclassify common pregnancy medications as dangerous controlled substances.