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,…
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…
Today, the FDA and CDC released new guidance recommending that healthcare providers pause the administration of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine. This decision was made so that reports of a rare…
When my wife was in college, years before we met, Saturday mornings boys would knock on her door: "Make us a gumbo!" This was in Wyoming where gumbo was rare, and she and her roommate, also from Lafayette, were popular for their…
On December 8, 1990, I got married. It was my first trip to Louisiana, and my staid protestant family met my new loud, fun catholic in-laws. Like the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, my stiff northeasterners got swallowed up in…
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Lindsey Guidry, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. I was testing for my karate black belt, trudging through the last stretch of a two-mile run.…
Some years the Influenza virus gets a special name for it's strain, like Swine Flu or H1N1. When he had his bout with flu, humorist Dave Barry made up his own: Martian Death Flu. He and his wife spent days in bed achy and…
My cousin has three daughters, and a pool. He and his wife knew the drowning risks, so when they had kids they made this rule: no going in the backyard without a life jacket on, whether the girls were going in the pool or not. …
