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We want to hear from you to better understand how this issue is playing out in Lafayette among patients, parents and providers.
Students and faculty members gathered on UL’s campus to protest the university’s handling of a student’s on-campus suicide.
Louisiana’s perennially poor health rankings can be blamed on poverty, childhood trauma and a lack of investment in women’s health, according to a report for the LA40by30 initiative.
Food assistance data shows that at least a fifth of Acadiana residents can’t afford to feed themselves and their families.
The Landry administration decided not to participate in the program, which last year brought $66.5 million in federal funds to Louisiana to feed poor children.
Participants in Ochsner’s dry Lent program enjoy reductions in blood pressure, weight, fat, liver enzymes, total cholesterol and increased vitamin B12.
With more women aware of the potential health risks and preferring a natural style, stylists say the ban offers too little and comes too late.
Expanded health insurance access has been shown to reduce the racial mortality gap in other states. But in Louisiana the disparity persists.
Facing substantial unmet need among adolescents and children, Vermilion Behavioral Health Systems has added the only Lafayette-area inpatient mental health treatment serving that population.
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