This week’s guest columnist is Aminah Phelps, MD a Family Practice resident at Ochsner University Hospital& Clinics.
It’s gumbo weather! Nothing bad about that! I remember when my my three-year-old got burned from trying to…
This week's guest columnist is Stephanie Barrow, MD, Family Practice Resident at Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics in Lafayette.
If the pandemic subsides this spring, we'll all relax: no more masks or distancing, no more…
Early in human history, people saw that losing blood from battle or childbirth was life-threatening. In the 1600s doctors tried transfusing blood from donors. Sometimes it worked, but often patients had fatal reactions. Other…
CROWLEY – Ochsner Lafayette General is pleased to announce the opening of a new family medicine clinic, located at 1325 Wright Ave, Suite H, in Crowley, Louisiana. The center, which officially opened Wednesday, January 26, 2022,…
The former Lafayette Community Health Care Clinic reopens as an off-campus extension of Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics primary care
LAFAYETTE – Today, Ochsner Lafayette General opened the doors to its Community Health…
With Christmas past, let's pause from this column's usual how-to-keep kids out of the Pediatric Emergency Department. Instead, here’s the weird story of the birth of Neonatology, the care of sick and premature newborns.
It…
LAFAYETTE – One year after administering Acadiana’s first COVID-19 vaccines to healthcare workers who had been fighting the virus since its onset, Ochsner Lafayette General shares vaccine milestones.
Since December 15, 2020,…
This week's guest columnists are Carrie Guidry, MD and Stefanie Acosta, MD, Family Practice Residents at Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics.
When I first heard croup, angry seal sounds were coming from my brother in the…
The U.S. House of Representatives recently censured a member for posting an animated video of him killing a rival Rep with a sword. Democrats were angry that the Republican Rep's action would have gotten him fired from any other…
LAFAYETTE - Someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds and, every four minutes, someone dies from one. While the risk of a stroke varies with race and ethnicity, according to the CDC, they are the leading cause of…
This week's guest columnist is Keyana Vernado, MD, Family Practice Resident at Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics.
I have recurring nightmares of my seven-month-old baby and her daredevil antics. I wake up hyperventilating…
When humorist Dave Barry caught Influenza, he called it the Martian Death Flu, like the title of a bad sci-fi movie. He and his wife spent days in bed achy and feverish. “There has been a mound of blankets on my wife's side of the…
