LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is involved in a national clinical trial that found extra Vitamin D does not significantly lower Type Two diabetes Risk. Local site investigator Doctor Daniel Hsia says people at high risk for type two diabetes should commit to lifestyle changes, instead of relying on Vitamin D supplementation…
cut 9 (08) “….everything”
About 575-thousand Louisiana residents have diabetes.

New Orleans Congressman Cedric Richmond is serving as co-chair of Joe Biden’s 2020 national presidential campaign. Richmond says he began pushing for the former Vice President to run shortly after President Donald Trump was elected…
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Biden unsuccessfully ran for President in 1988 and 2008.

The Pelican Institute says their study reveals the Medicaid expansion led tens of thousands of Louisianans who qualified for Medicaid to drop their private insurance. Pelican Vice President for Government Affairs Renee Amar says about 450,000 people enrolled under the expansion, at an average cost to the state of six-thousand dollars a year, and many previously had insurance.
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Pelican says if those enrollees began paying for their own insurance again, it would save the state 145 million dollars a year. But Louisiana Department of Health Policy Director Jeanie Donovan says a commissioned study by LSU shows the private insurance market barely budged after the expansion, debunking Pelican’s claim…
Cut 14 (08) “…significant.”