Rosemary Westwood

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.

Louisiana’s top public health physician is described in multiple state communications as a family medicine physician, but he is not listed as board-certified in the specialty.

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.

The cuts target mental health and substance use programs, including crisis services, according to Louisiana health officials.

The bill would criminalize efforts to pressure someone into having an abortion, whether or not the abortion was carried out.

Louisiana’s deadly whooping cough outbreak continues to surge, and it’s doing the most harm to children under the age of 1.

So far this year, Louisiana recorded 368 cases of whooping cough, also called pertussis, as of August 23, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak

Louisiana's surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham, who has praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as health secretary and called COVID vaccines "dangerous," will become the second-highest ranking official at the CDC.

Rosemary Westwood from member station WWNO asked a few of New Orlean's favorite musicians about the songs they like to listen to around Christmas.