Health

Ground will be broken tomorrow morning (11am) for a new surface water treatment facility on Caddo Lake near Mooringsport.

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LSU Health is in budget crisis mode thanks to millions of dollars in federal Medicaid cuts. In fact the vice chancellor for clinical affairs Dr. Hugh Mighty held a news conference today to dispel rumors that the hospital is being sold.

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Louisiana residents will have better health care thanks to a $20,000,000 grant that's being split up between eight health care institutions across the state. And, one of them is LSU-Health in Shreveport.

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Today's a date the Touchstone family will never forget. One year ago today, Rachel Touchstone -- who was 32 weeks pregnant -- was driving to work, when a car accident sent her to LSU Health Shreveport's ER.

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Chances are that no matter how charming of a ringtone you heard coming from a toilet seat, you wouldn’t stick your face against it to find out who was calling. The reason? It’s not supernatural – toilets are disgusting.

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If you're going to be out and about this holiday weekend, you may encounter firefighters at busy intersections shaking their boots for MDA.

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Three more West Nile deaths have been confirmed in Louisiana -- bringing to nine the number of people who have died from the virus in our state this year.

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The Department of Health and Hospitals is reporting 24 new cases of West Nile Virus infection this week -- but no additional deaths.

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Just short of playing Russian roulette at the breakfast table, the consensus seems to be that we are all doomed without a doubt, as the latest chapter of the great American death machine has just revealed that eating egg yolk may be just as bad as smoking cigarettes.

So what in the name of Joe Camel is going on here?

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Folks in Indiana are not the only ones concerned about a new strain of swine flu. The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals are both monitoring reports of influenza virus H3N2v from county fairs in other states.

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