The Louisiana Department of Health covered $103 million in ineligible Medicaid costs according to a newly-released audit ...

Various proposals had floated in the U.S. House that could have severely affected the state's health care system.

The Louisiana Legislature on Tuesday passed a ban on kratom, an herbal substance that critics describe as a public health ...

A bill making it a crime to intentionally give someone an incurable, sexually transmitted infection, such as herpes, is ...

From new criminal justice reforms to teacher raises and election integrity bills, see what’s already passed and what’s still ...

Baton Rouge-based Judge Jewel Welch denied the Louisiana attorney general's request to dismiss a lawsuit filed last year by opponents of the law.

After the holiday weekend, lawmakers will return to Baton Rouge Tuesday to begin the seventh week of the regular legislative ...

But Tamika Thomas-Magee, a nurse and the director of clinical services at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, which operates health centers in Louisiana, said she believes the law is being used as a ...

The new law in Louisiana could stop that ... Misoprostol especially has wide-ranging applications in reproductive health including for labor induction, to soften the cervix during surgical ...

A new lawsuit challenges Louisiana’s classification of abortion medications as controlled dangerous substances. The suit alleges that the law creates barriers for health care workers who need to ...

First, they claim the law violates the right to equal protection by discriminating against patients and providers based on physical condition, under Article 1, Section 3 of the Louisiana ...