Conversations in Medicine

Acid reflux disease or chronic heartburn is diagnosed often in Louisiana due to our love of spicy food in the southern part of the state.

Capital Area United Way has been a support service in our community and beyond for many years.

In November, Mary Bird Perkins-Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center became the first in Baton Rouge to offer lung-cancer screenings to high-risk patients.

David Day's son 15-year-old Caleb was hit when shots were fired during a fight at the Mall of Louisiana in January 2012.

Philippe Vetters, a physical therapist in Baton Rouge, is on the front lines of athlete care.

Many patients in Louisiana are now being advised by their physicians to have an end-of-life plan, describing the types of medical treatments they want to receive, or not.

Until 2010, patients had to draw up a new directive every time they changed doctors.

Urologist Dudley Atkinson discusses benign prostatic hyperplasia.