LSU Health New Orleans Scott Cancer Center has enrolled the first patients in the United States in a National Cancer Institute/Southwest Oncology Group clinical trial for men whose prostate cancer has spread. The Phase III multi-center trial will compare the outcomes of treating men diagnosed with metastatic Stage 4 prostate cancer with standard systemic therapy or with standard systemic therapy in combination with either surgery or radiation therapy.
September 25, 2018
The State of Louisiana (“State”), the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (“LSU”) Board of Supervisors on behalf of LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport (“LSUHSC-S”) and the LSUHSC-S Faculty Group Practice, and Ochsner Health System (“Ochsner”) announced today that they have signed the final Public Private Partnership Agreement in Shreveport and Monroe. Ochsner and LSU Health Shreveport will jointly form Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport to oversee and coordinate activities between the health sciences center and the healthcare delivery system.
September 25, 2018
Louisiana Healthcare Connections, the state’s largest Medicaid health plan with more than 475,000 members and offices in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Covington, and Lafayette, has expanded its leadership team. Those individuals include:
September 18, 2018
The Louisiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (LA AAP), Louisiana Shots for Tots Coalition, and the American Cancer Society have teamed up to present the HPV Summit: Practical Tools to Implement Change. The event will be held Oct. 4 at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Rd. in Baton Rouge.
September 18, 2018
Health in Our Hands (HiOH), a patient community network and an initiative of REACHnet, has launched a free recruitment initiative for community members interested in participating in the advancement of clinical research.
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