In August, 2005, Anand Irimpen, a cardiologist and a professor at Tulane University, evacuated New Orleans during the approach of Hurricane Katrina. He and his family watched it make landfall from a ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has granted Louisiana State University and Tulane University nearly $4 million in funding to repair health facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina, according to ...

A trial, involving a class-action lawsuit against Tenet Healthcare and Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, will determine whether the healthcare organizations are responsible for patient deaths ...

NEW ORLEANS AP - A doctor and two nurses were arrested overnight in connection with patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana attorney general's ...

The Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research is an interdisciplinary research center in which environmental engineers, environmental health scientists, philosophers, and other groups work ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A doctor arrested in the deaths of four patients at a hospital amid the chaos following Hurricane Katrina sued the state attorney general Monday, accusing him of using the case to ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says construction is about to start on a $130 million hospital in eastern New Orleans. The area has been without a hospital since Hurricane Katrina ...

Among the primary reasons for the workshop was not only to convey compassion for the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region, but also to ensure their safety and well-being as they reinhabit ...