The implementation of a comprehensive smoke-free air ordinance to protect all employees in the East Baton Rouge workforce has come to fruition. The ordinance, co-authored by seven Metro Council members, was passed on August 8, 2017 and was recently placed into implementation.
June 6, 2018
New guidelines developed by the American Cancer Society (ACS) recommend that screening for colorectal cancer for average-risk adults begin at age 45, five years earlier than the previous recommendation. The guideline update, published as an Early View paper in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, was co-authored by Elizabeth, T. H. Fontham, DrPH, emeritus professor and founding dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health and co-chair of the American Cancer Society’s Screening Guideline Development Group.
June 6, 2018
North Oaks Sports Medicine certified athletic trainers have joined North Oaks Physician Group orthopaedic surgeons to select Michael Lee, Leslie Matherne, Madison Knight, and Ty Moran as the 2018 “Student-Athletes of the Spring Season” in Tangipahoa and Livingston parishes.
Female and male students were chosen from both parishes, representing the months of February-April 2018.
May 31, 2018
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has added the updated 2018 Natural and Catastrophic Disaster Parish Resource Book to their website. The book contains information pertaining to disaster/emergency recovery assistance as it relates to permitting, debris collection, and environmental cleanup resources.
May 31, 2018
With 130 U.S. Defense Department-funded studies over the past 30 years, LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center has provided nutritional research for America’s military.
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