KSLA12 - “What we tended to see with the Delta variant is it has impacted our pregnant populations very very hard, especially at the height of the Delta variant we had transfers from all over the state of pregnant woman who were in respiratory distress and significantly decompensating,” said Dr. Caitlin Busada, associate program director of residency of Obstetrics & Gynecology at LSUHS.

KSLA12 - "It takes about an hour in a hot car, two hours in the shade,  documentation says for a child to develop a heat stroke when left unattended in a car,” said Dr. Wanda Thomas, associate professor of pediatrics at LSUHS School of Medicine.

The LSU Health Shreveport (LSUHS) / LSU Shreveport (LSUS) Master of Public Health Program has been named first in Louisiana and 27th in the nation on EduMed.org’s 2021 Most Affordable Online MPH Program ranking. Just 8 percent of U.S. postsecondary institutions earned a ranking position.

KSLA12 - Dr. Charles Webb, Director of sports medicine division at LSUHS, shares that young athletes are usually taught how to hit and receive a hit around junior high. Dr. Webb said parents should put their children in club soccer or flag football in contrast to popcorn or pee wee football.

Wall Street Journal - Some virologists believe the Delta variant evolved to maximize transmissibility and that its ability to spread rapidly will eventually reach a ceiling as more of the global population gets vaccinated. “It looks like this virus is already driving a Lamborghini right now in terms of transmissibility, so I’m not sure it can get much faster,” said Jeremy Kamil, a virologist at LSU Health Shreveport who is studying coronavirus genetics. Read the full article.

Forum - Dr. Sarwat Umer, Associate Professor of Medicine/Pediatrics, and Dr. Anusha Vuppala, Rheumatology Fellow, at LSUHS share information on Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), a complication associated with COVID-19 infection in children.

The research of Lynn Harrison, PhD, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at LSUHS, was selected by NASA’s Space Biology Program as one of three space biology proposals to prepare for future research on the surface of the moon.