Rosemary Westwood

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Center plans to break ground on a $100 million stand-alone, multi-disciplinary cancer facility next year, according to state and health officials at a Monday press conference.

Another child has been reported dead from COVID-19 in Louisiana on Monday, the second confirmed fatality in just a handful of days, even as the highly transmissible fourth surge begins to slow.

Louisiana is giving $100 to people who get their first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, state officials announced Friday, as the state’s vaccination rate continues to lag behind the rest of the nation.

It’s now clear that the unprecedented fourth surge of the pandemic has peaked. But experts worry that the virus is still raging in Louisiana.

The mandate will be extended for 28 days. Case numbers and hospitalizations are dropping, but hospitals in the state are still handling four times the COVID-19 patients compared to late June, before the fourth wave began.

Six pregnant women and 10 fetuses have died of COVID-19 since mid-July, the Louisiana Department of Health reported Tuesday.

Two virus-related child deaths have happened in less than a week in Louisiana. Low vaccination rates among adults can leave kids under 11 that can't get the shot more susceptible to the disease.

Louisiana’s abortion clinics are struggling to keep up with an influx of patients across the state border, after Texas enacted a six-week abortion ban. Louisiana lawmakers could consider passing a similar law.

The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will hear arguments in December in a case that could see the court overturn or functionally gut Roe v. Wade — the Supreme Court precedent that established constitutional abortion rights — and simultaneously let a restrictive abortion ban take effect in Louisiana.

City officials are now promising new regulations for independent living centers to fill in what they say is a gap that left hundreds in the sweltering heat and darkness.