health care

In Acadiana, when life hands you lemons, you start a parade and make your own happy!

Lafayette General and Jennings American Legion Hospital have been involved in a clinical affiliation agreement since 2016. This is the next step toward a merger.

If you're a nurse, a parent or know someone about to have a baby, this local nurse's "I'm Just A Labor And Delivery Nurse" is something you need to read.

These home remedies might be bizarre, but they really do work!

With four confirmed "no" votes on the Senate's version of Obamacare repeal, the "Plan B" bill effectively died before a vote late Monday night. The hold outs include Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Mike Lee (R-UT), Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Rand Paul (R-KY)...

In the video I can see how the tool would (eventually) be an effective method for treating an ingrown nail.

RNs selected will be honored at a banquet at the Petroleum Club of Lafayette on May 7, 2016, during National Nurses Week.

Another nationwide survey puts Louisiana near the bottom of a very important list.

Denis Linton, Ph.D., will be one of 12 to participate in a national nursing leadership course.

It might not seem like it a first glance but this is actually good news for our state. We used to be on the bottom.

With the acquisition, LGH will operate and manage Regional Medical Center as "Lafayette General Southwest."

July is the deadliest month at hospitals. So what makes going to the hospital in July a bigger risk? Why do more people die in hospitals during the month of July?

Contraception is among a range of preventive services that must be provided at no extra charge under the health care law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010 and the Supreme Court upheld two years later.

The program received $500,000 in donations last year from Lafayette's major hospitals and the Lafayette Economic Development Authority to help fund faculty salaries and equipment needed to get the program off the ground.

A candidate for the Illinois state senate has become the latest viral video sensation. Dr. Barbara Bellar is not a fan of Obamacare and details her problems with it in this clever speech.

Sometimes, even the most diligent news network can make a mistake. But when two networks botch a report only minutes apart? Well, that qualifies as news itself.

The Obama administration got an enormous victory on Thursday when the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold the President’s signature achievement: the 2010 health care law. And in a surprise to many court watchers, it was Chief Justice John Roberts who sided with the more liberal justices and wrote the majority opinion.