Official announcements have confirmed that Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana is stepping down from $2 Million-per-year role as the top lobbyist for the medicine industry, amid various complaints from drug manufacturers that he had bargained away their earnings too cheaply, spent too much of his $150 Million advertising campaign in order to sell the revamp and also miscalculated his asses

In a Wednesday announcement made by the officials with the US Department of the Interior, and the Senator Mary Landrieu, the federal list of endangered species will no longer feature the brown pelican, as it has been recovered from 'near extinction' category.

According to the findings of a research, led by Jim Cardelli of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, a green tea extract – epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) – with anti-oxidant properties can prove effective in slowing the progression of prostate cancer.

According to a study presented at the annual scientific session meeting American Diabetes Association in New Orleans, US researchers have come across predictable early risk signs of Type 2 diabetes in very young children.

According to a study presented at the American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans on Sunday, Novo Nordisk A/S's experimental diabetes medicine, liraglutide, scored high over rival products, in terms of bringing about weight loss and controlled blood-sugar levels in diabetics after a two-year treatment period.

According to a new study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and several pharmaceutical companies, drugs should be the first line of treatment for those diabetes' patients who also suffer from heart disease; and angioplasty or bypass surgery be added only in the severest of cases.

Researchers in a study said that in order to lose weight it does not matter whether you go on a low fat diet or low carb one, what matters is that you consume fewer calories. 

Scientists have found a common cold virus which can interfere with our body's normal functioning and make us fat. The highly infectious virus is known as AD-36, infects the lungs and along with causing sore throats forces fat cells to multiply.

According to new research steroids given to children who are wheezing due to viral or other infections don't get any relief but could harm the child.

Agency Director Mark Cooper at a news conference revealed, a rope tied into an eight inch noose was found Wednesday on the desk of an African-American supervisor at the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness in Baton Rouge , Louisiana .