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Updated: 5 hours ago
|By Lester Duhé
You’ve probably heard a little about the monkeypox recently, but Baton Rouge area doctors say it’s nothing to panic over.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks has pledged the agency will “move quickly without sacrificing our standards” in evaluating tot-sized doses from both Pfizer and Moderna.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By Danielle Gober and Robert Walko
Many office workers, even if they work from home, tend to sit most of the day.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By Milvionne Chery and Roque Correa
You survived your COVID infection, but just when you believe your symptoms are subsiding, they never quite go away.
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Updated: 22 hours ago
|By Cali Hubbard
Baton Rouge is one of the many cities around the world that have been testing wastewater samples for COVID-19.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 4:17 PM CDT
|By WAFB Staff
The staff at Our Lady of Lake Regional Medical Center has put out an urgent call for blood donations. The hospital is experiencing a “critical blood shortage” for O negative blood.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 4:14 PM CDT
|By Marsha Lewis and Roque Correa
Dermatologists want to bring awareness to melanoma a deadly disease.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 5:04 AM CDT
|By Julie Marks and Roque Correa
Investigators found aspirin produced a 13 percent reduction in cardiovascular disease, with similar benefits seen at older ages in each of the trials.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 4:43 PM CDT
|By Johnathan Manning
However, LDH is reaffirming its official recommendation that all eligible children receive a COVID vaccination.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 3:13 PM CDT
|By WAFB Staff
Mayor Sharon Weston Broome said there has been a recent increase of COVID-19 in East Baton Rouge Parish wastewater.
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Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 12:03 PM CDT
|By Cali Hubbard
Many bills are grabbing attention in the Louisiana State Capitol, including a law that could be a game-changer for cancer patients across our state.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 4:55 AM CDT
|By Milvionne Chery and Roque Correa
About 16 million adults are living with dry eye disease in the United States.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 8:34 AM CDT
|By Milvionne Chery and Roque Correa
Maintaining a clean house can go a long way in keeping your allergies in check, but how you clean can make them worse.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 7:13 AM CDT
|By Julie Marks and Roque Correa
COVID has forced many people to take time off from the gym.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 6:51 AM CDT
|By Cali Hubbard
We all know the temperatures get intense in south Louisiana, and June, July, and August are the worst.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 9:35 AM CDT
|By Marsha Lewis and Roque Correa
Fatigue, fever, muscle aches, and nausea all sounds like the symptoms of COVID but they’re actually the symptoms of Lyme disease.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 8:34 AM CDT
|By Cyndy McGrath, Kirk Manson and Roque Correa
For the past decade, researchers have studied the impact of epidural stimulation.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 3:18 PM CDT
|By Gray News staff
The recall wiped out many brands covered by WIC, a federal program like food stamps that serves women, infants and children, though the program now permits brand substitutes.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 5:35 AM CDT
|By Cyndy McGrath, Roque Correa and Kirk Manson
Most of us have a smart phone in our hands, within arm’s length, or tucked into a pants’ pocket.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 5:31 AM CDT
|By Cyndy McGrath and Roque Correa
Standard chemotherapy wouldn’t shrink the tumor fast enough.
Updated: May. 11, 2022 at 3:35 PM CDT
|By Marsha Lewis and Roque Correa
20 percent of all kids, girls, and boys, say they have been bullied.
Updated: May. 11, 2022 at 12:09 PM CDT
|By Cali Hubbard
A mother said when her son was six months old, mealtimes quickly turned into a nightmare, until her pediatrician told her about feeding therapy.
Updated: May. 11, 2022 at 5:58 AM CDT
|By Milvionne Chery and Roque Correa
Here is what you need to know when it comes to your pets and COVID.
Updated: May. 10, 2022 at 10:59 AM CDT
|By WAFB Staff
LSU announced changes to its COVID-19 monitoring policy starting for the 2022 summer semester. A letter was sent to students, faculty, and staff on Tuesday, May 10.
Updated: May. 10, 2022 at 10:14 AM CDT
|By Adahlia Thomas and Roque Correa
May is Stroke Awareness Month and every year more than 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke.
Updated: May. 10, 2022 at 7:16 AM CDT
|By Cyndy McGrath, Kirk Manson and Roque Correa
Atrial fibrillation, or Afib, is a condition where the heart races or quivers, resulting in an irregular heartbeat.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 6:57 AM CDT
|By Cali Hubbard
The American Cancer Society and the Baton Rouge Junior Executive Board are holding an event called “Fork Cancer.”
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 6:20 AM CDT
|By Julie Marks and Roque Correa
Dry eye syndrome is a chronic condition in which your body doesn’t produce enough tears or the tears don’t lubricate your eyes well enough.
Updated: May. 8, 2022 at 6:22 PM CDT
|By Chris Rosato
There has been a lot of talk about abortion over the last few days, but a new bill to charge women who get them with murder is making strides at the legislature.
Updated: May. 8, 2022 at 1:16 PM CDT
|By Breanne Bizette
Just one in two women over 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis but there are ways to prevent bones from getting weaker.
Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 6:19 PM CDT
|By Kellie Sanchez
Summer in southeast Louisiana is hot and humid, with conditions that are ripe for mosquitoes.
Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 6:15 PM CDT
|By Elizabeth Vowell
For National Nurse’s Day, a group of nurses wrote letters to their past selves, documenting their own heroic and heartbreaking journeys through the pandemic as front-line workers.
Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 5:30 AM CDT
|By Marsha Lewis and Roque Correa
One person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease, but this year, more than two million people will be saved by stents.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 11:24 AM CDT
|By Cali Hubbard
In our Healthline News, researchers are looking at ways to promote healthy aging.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 4:45 AM CDT
|By Hillary Rubin, Roque Correa and Scott Newell
It all started after Raven’s parent’s noticed weakness, and a lack of mobility in her left side.
Updated: May. 4, 2022 at 5:42 AM CDT
|By Marsha Lewis and Roque Correa
Every year, 182,000 people have a heart valve replacement.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 4:44 PM CDT
|By WAFB Staff
A peer support specialist spoke out on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol for Behavioral Health Day on Tuesday, May 3.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 3:14 PM CDT
|By Julie Marks and Bob Walk
As you age, your brain starts to change. But there are some simple ways to combat some of those negative changes.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 3:40 PM CDT
|By Adahlia Thomas and Bob Walko
An estimated 684,000 fatal falls occur each year. A range of interventions exist to prevent falls, one of them - yoga.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 6:58 AM CDT
|By Roque Correa and Milvionne Chery
Benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH, is a natural enlargement of the prostate.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 12:11 PM CDT
|By Cali Hubbard
She wants you to know about a fundraising event in Baton Rouge to help cancer patients pay for their medical bills
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 6:53 AM CDT
|By WAFB Staff
The DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) will host its 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday, April 30.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 4:45 AM CDT
|By Julie Marks and Roque Correa
A recent survey found it takes Americans an average of 24 minutes to actually get out of bed - after two alarms and hitting the snooze twice.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 5:52 PM CDT
|By WAFB Staff
For some people, being a couch potato and not exercising may not be the only reasons the scales are tipping in the wrong direction.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 6:58 AM CDT
|By Cyndy McGrath, Kirk Manson and Roque Correa
Head and neck cancers are continuing to increase in the United States, going up about five percent a year due to the prevalence of the human papilloma virus, or HPV.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 5:00 PM CDT
|By Milvionne Chery and Roque Correa
In a survey from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, 35 percent of women and 20 percent of men said they had trouble with acne in their 30s.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 1:47 PM CDT
|By Danielle Gober
A study from St. Lawrence University found that a cluttered bedroom and a poor night’s sleep go hand in hand
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 4:42 AM CDT
|By Cali Hubbard
These facilities are often located in underserved areas to reach vulnerable seniors.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 6:58 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and ZEKE MILLER
Harris will isolate at her residence but continue to work remotely, and would only return to the White House once she tests negative for the virus.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:32 AM CDT
|By Milvionne Chery and Bob Walko
there are some mistakes that can sabotage a well-intentioned workout and even shorten your life span