On Feb. 13, 2025, Ralph L. Abraham, MD, the Louisiana Surgeon General announced that the state will no…
On Jan. 6, 2025, the Louisiana Department of Health reports the patient who had been hospitalized with the…
On Dec. 18, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that a patient has…
On Apr. 6, 2020, IGEA Pharma announced that it was starting to supply of a COVID-19 antibody test…
In 1986, The Biomedical Research Foundation (BRF) was founded. The BRF is an independent, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization founded…
In 1970, the Southern Corn Leaf Blight (SCLB) sweeps across the South, destroying 15% of the U.S. corn…
In 1942, “Louisiana pneumonitis,” a human disease possibly related to psittacosis, was discovered and studied in great detail…
In 1921, Riceland Foods was founded by a group of Arkansas rice farmers that created a farmers cooperative…
By April 1919, following upticks in influenza over winter, the final tally for New Orleans stood at 54,089…
In 1839, the University of Missouri was founded after the Missouri legislature passed the Geyer Act, legislation that…
In 1802, a U.S. marine hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana was authorized by Congress while the port was…