January 27th, 2012
First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden's 'Joining Forces' initiative to support and medically treat the nation's veterans is spanning medical schools nationwide, and while LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans is among them, the initiati… ; read more
January 26th, 2012
New Orleans — Portions of Tulane Avenue and Canal Street will be closed temporarily, due to construction work related to the new LSU Medical Center project. On Saturday, Jan. 28, Tulane Avenue will be closed between Claiborne and Galvez from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Also, on Sunday, Jan. 29,… read more
January 24th, 2012
Entrepreneurs VoiceHIT change how technology is used in healthcare
Adriana Lopez By Adriana Lopez The Times-Picayune
It's ironic that as technological advancements increase in healthcare, the relationship and amount of communication between the healthcare provider and the patient declines. Thus, causing inefficiencies throughout every stage of the patient/provider relationship, beginning… read more
January 11th, 2012
First Lady Praises Academic Institutions for Dedicating Resources to Serving Veterans & Families read more
September 30th, 2011
In a small laboratory in the newly opened New Orleans BioInnovation Center, Sudhir Sinha and four employees work on what he hopes will be the next major advances in DNA testing — profiling the smallest of genetic samples and having results on DNA comparisons completed within an hour or two. read more
September 29th, 2011
Despite unit merger, Mel Lagarde says he’s not moving read more
September 28th, 2011
Nicolas G. Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and David Stark, an MD/PhD student working in his lab, have discovered how a key chemical neurotransmitter that interacts with two receptors in the brain promotes either normal… read more
September 23rd, 2011
Company will have room to grow read more
September 22nd, 2011
Today with the dedication of the New Orleans BioInnovation Center, more good-paying jobs could be coming to the city.
The state-of-the-art center on Canal Street will house biotech and life sciences entrepreneurs and startups, as well as support research at four area universities. read more
September 16th, 2011
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – State lawmakers are backing spending plans for a new $1.1 billion research and teaching hospital in New Orleans, to replace Charity Hospital. The approval was the last significant hurdle stalling the hospital’s construction. With the support Friday of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget,… read more
September 16th, 2011
BATON ROUGE – The possibility for a new public hospital in downtown New Orleans cleared a major hurdle Friday. The state legislative committee approved funding for the business plan that calls for a new, $1.1 billion public hospital, the University Medical Center, in New Orleans, replacing the shuttered Charity Hospital.… read more
September 12th, 2011
Variables are likely to be debated before Louisiana legislative committee this week read more