After a highly successful, sold-out dinner series in 2016 consisting of 13 dinners prepared by local chefs for Golden Fork Society (GFS) members, the Food Prize announced that they will be hosting two sessions of the Society of the Golden Fork to begin May 1.

On this special date, Louisiana Association for the Blind (LAB) was established by a local chapter of the Lion’s Club to provide employment and training opportunities for people who are visually impaired. Our organization started small, making brooms and mops, which were sold door to door to raise monies to support the mission.

According to the American Hearing Loss Association, approximately 20 percent of people in the U.S. suffer from some form of hearing deficit. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that approximately 538 million people worldwide are afflicted with this condition.

There was a woman with a rare and aggressive blood cancer lying on her deathbed with little hope to cling to, but the one in 12 million chance that she would match a viable donor came to fruition ... that donor being me. To tell you all the truth, I didn’t even know I was in the donor registry.

A native of McGregor, Iowa, Meehan studied in France while in college, where he met his wife, Shreveport native Camille Johnson. Meehan earned a master of social work degree from Louisiana State University in 1976 and began working for the State of Louisiana in the Office of Mental Retardation.

Amblyopia and strabismus are two of the most common diagnoses encountered in pediatric ophthalmology. Many children may not have been diagnosed with either condition or they may have one of the conditions and do not know that treatment can be performed.

injuries at a higher rate (3:1) than males due to increased laxity of their ligament connective tissues, differences in the bony anatomy of their knees, the alignment of their lower extremities (pelvis to knee to ankle), and sometimes decreased hamstring muscle strength and balance.

Strictly speaking, allergy is an undesirable reaction that is not expected from the interaction between the person’s immune system and a substance that is generally tolerated by the vast majority of people. It is an individual’s own hypersensitivity – i.