News and Campaign Updates

ABBEVILLE — The Minerals Management Service awarded a $217,782 grant to construct coastal protections in Vermilion Parish, U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany,(R-Lafayette), announced Tuesday.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) yesterday announced its recommendation that women between the age of 40 and 50 years old, whose only risk factor is age, skip that yearly mammogram.

As part of their multiprong strategy to shape the course of the health care debate, Republicans took to heart the classic 1970s song lyric, “doctor, doctor, give me the news.”