The American Heart Association (AHA) recently launched its Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Scholars program in New Orleans, with a special dinner recognizing the 2019-2020 inaugural class of scholars and mentors.
December 24, 2019
December 15, 2019
Jesus Chua, MD, a family physician in Franklin, La., was awarded the Physician Summit Award from Louisiana Healthcare Connections for demonstrating a commitment to high quality, accessible care.
December 15, 2019
The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) announced a new collaboration with Walmart to advance the state’s goal of eliminating hepatitis C in Louisiana by 2024. LDH and Walmart will work together to implement a pilot program in 10 Walmart stores to offer free hepatitis C screenings at the pharmacy for people who are at risk, along with in-store education and awareness. The free screenings are offered from 2 – 6 p.m. each Wednesday in-store until Feb. 1, 2020.
December 15, 2019
Ochsner Hospital for Children is the only facility in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to offer vertebral body tethering (VBT) – an innovative solution to treating scoliosis in pediatric patients that is less invasive than traditional surgical treatments.
December 15, 2019
Noelle Moreau, PhD, PT, associate professor of physical therapy at LSU Health New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions, and Kristie Bjornson, PT, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics at Seattle Children's Research Institute, are the co-principal investigators of a $2.7 million grant to study an innovative training method to improve walking in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The five-year grant was awarded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health.
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