Louisiana's surgeon general, Dr. Ralph Abraham, said his goal was to get politics out of medicine and improve patients' informed consent when he decided to issue a directive ending mass vaccination ...

Health officials emphasize that the measles vaccine is the most effective protection against the highly infectious virus.

Louisiana now has its own surgeon general, and Ralph Abraham, a medical doctor who since January has led the Louisiana Department of Health as secretary, will fill that role. Gov. Jeff Landry on ...

Louisiana Department of Health Secretary Ralph Abraham made a special visit to northwestern Louisiana Monday to tour the 988 Lifeline Center in Bossier City. Abraham's visit recognized the key ...

Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham said state health department officials are on alert as the worst U.S. outbreak of measles in decades expands in neighboring Texas and New Mexico. Abraham said ...

Ralph Abraham, a doctor and former U.S. congressman who faced accusations during the 2019 governor's race that he had overprescribed opioids, will be the next Department of Health secretary, ...

As a country doctor, Ralph Abraham has that easy-going “bedside manner.” The north Louisiana congressman is far easier to talk to than the other two main candidates for governor in the Oct. 12 primary ...

Louisiana officials say they initially picked Professor Longhair as Song Big Chief, but they got overruled. Now, the Harris Walch campaign said, all I Do Is Win embodies the energy and enthusiasm of ...