Dec 8, 2025 | Children's Health
The holidays feel magical on their own, but choosing gifts that also support your child’s development? That’s the kind of magic that lasts long after the wrapping paper is gone. Four of our pediatric experts share how parents can use purposeful play to support...
Dec 8, 2025 | Children's Health, Patient Stories
After four years in a wheelchair, 14-year-old Ja’Kayden is walking again. And not just walking. He’s marching across the field with his school band, keeping rhythm to a beat that’s entirely his own. For his mom, Kawanda, watching him take those first steps after years...
Nov 21, 2025 | Patient Stories
On March 31, 2025, Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Williams was directing traffic at a large oil tank fire in Livonia. As fire trucks left the scene, a distracted driver failed to stop, striking Robert and a fire official’s pickup truck. He was...
Nov 14, 2025 | Patient Stories
When Scarlett Phillips, a sophomore at LSU’s University Laboratory School, first felt a pain in her knee last fall, she thought it was from cheerleading practice. “I just kept thinking I was being dramatic,” she says. “I wanted to push through for my team.” Her coach...
Nov 11, 2025 | Cancer, Patient Stories
At 80 years old, Larry Boudreaux thought he had his health figured out. So when he began feeling unusually tired, the Thibodaux native assumed it was related to his diabetes. But within weeks, he started having trouble swallowing, the first sign that something more...
