Emily Woodruff
Health Reporter at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Health Reporter at The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Health reporter for @NOLAnews | [email protected]
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
nola.com | Emily Woodruff
The Louisiana Department of Health, which runs the state's Medicaid program and scores of initiatives aimed at improving public health, may lose tens of millions of dollars in funding due to federal program cuts initiated by the Trump administration through its Department of Government Efficiency.
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2 weeks ago |
nola.com | Emily Woodruff
Louisiana is preparing to join a national effort bubbling up to ban soft drink purchases under SNAP, the federal food assistance program for low-income residents, as part of a larger push to reshape food policy led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Governor Jeff Landry announced on social media last week that the state will request a federal waiver to prohibit the use of SNAP benefits for soft drinks.
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3 weeks ago |
nola.com | Emily Woodruff
When Michelle Moore’s mom, Betty, was diagnosed with ALS at age 64, the progress of the disease was swift and devastating. By the time she moved in with her daughter in New Orleans in 2018 — about 9 months into her diagnosis — she was in a power wheelchair and communicated through text messaging. Faced with the inevitable progression of an illness that had stolen her independence, Moore said she and her mother focused on what they could control. “We couldn’t change what was coming,” Moore said.
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3 weeks ago |
nola.com | Emily Woodruff
After a weather forecast that didn’t quite materialize Saturday, southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi will enjoy a balmy Sunday. But National Weather Service officials have warned that a more serious storm system is on the way. The region saw far less rain than expected yesterday, with the heaviest rainfall staying near Baton Rouge and Hammond.
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3 weeks ago |
nola.com | Emily Woodruff
The line for Dr. Anthony Fauci at Tulane University’s Book Fest began roughly two hours before his Friday morning talk and stretched from McAlister Auditorium down Freret Street. Dr. Ashley Pastore, a New Orleans ER physician, wheeled her freshly vaccinated two-month-old along the curb and onto campus. In her first year out of residency in 2020, she looked to Fauci as a guide through unprecedented uncertainty, treating patients during some of the worst COVID waves in the country.
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38% of residents in Speaker Mike Johnson's district rely on Medicaid. “I'm just barely surviving,” a grocery worker in rural Louisiana says. “I don’t even own a TV.” Where potential Medicaid cuts could hit hardest via @KFFHealthNews @philgalewitz https://t.co/pLDsQfKxoh
RT @MelindaDeslatte: Audit finds pregnancy care is getting worse in Louisiana, despite more spending and attention (from @emily_woodruff_…
Both Sen. Bill Cassidy and Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham are recommending the MMR vaccine after measles killed a child in Texas. Cassidy predicts the virus is “moving across I-10” in a press call earlier this week. From @alysepfeil https://t.co/rfOuzR6UfR