Healthcare

Baton Rouge General Medical Center has opened the Louisiana Center for Bariatrics, offering surgical and nonsurgical approaches to fighting obesity. 

If there is any benefit to the scorching temperatures that are currently blanketing south Louisiana, it's that the mosquitoes don't like it either.

MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston sees more patients from Louisiana than from any other state besides Texas, says Dr. Welela Tereffe, MD Anderson’s chief medical executive.

Regret and frustration were the leading themes during this week's Senate committee hearings on the regular session’s frantic final moments.

Yet another bombshell exploded in the Capital Region’s health care market today as MD Anderson, perhaps the biggest name in American cancer care, announced a partnership with Ochsner that starts with Baton Rouge. 

Ochsner Health and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will partner to create the Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center in south Louisiana, the companies announced today. 

Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a set of vetoes last week, his first since the regular session was adjourned earlier this month. The executive actions grabbed a few headlines here and there, but they failed to answer the larger questions looming over the state Capitol.  

But with an increasingly diverse and multigenerational workforce, age bias now occurs across the career life cycle—especially for women, according to Harvard Business Review.   

The courts could force lawmakers into a special session on redistricting, to redraw Louisiana’s congressional map to accommodate a second Black majority district. 

Pressing pause: The Federal Reserve decided at its meeting today to keep its key...