It is important for sinus sufferers to maintain hygiene while using Neti Pot, as it has been informed that by using tap water or unclean pot, a person’s life could be put into danger. The health officials have recently launched warnings for Neti Pot users as two people have been reported of succumbing to death after using tap water in Neti Pot.

It is high time for the neti pot users to get alert, as it has been reported that two users of it, hailing from Louisiana, have succumbed to death because of brain-eating amoeba. The neti pots are usually used by the sinus patients.

Until he could have known that he has been contracted with rabies, he died. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported one of its kind cases, where human rabies has come into light due to a vampire.

Jamie Lynn Spears, younger sister of pop star Britney Spears said farewell to her teenage years as she turned 20 on Monday. Spears, who was famous for playing the part of Zoey Brooks on the Nickelodeon show Zoey 101 was all over the tabloids when she was 17 years old for becoming a teenage mother.

Louisiana Attorney General, Buddy Caldwell has sued British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. He has claimed that the drug maker hid the harmful side effects of the diabetes drug Avandia.

The Attorney General has filed civil action lawsuit against the pharmaceutical giant for wrongfully and illegally marketing, pricing, promoting and selling its diabetes drug Avandia.

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.