Dr. Raoult Ratard, the state epidemiologist for the Louisiana Department of Health whose work put him on the front line of public health battles for more than two decades, has died. The state ...

State epidemiologist Dr. Raoult Ratard has died. The announcement from the Louisiana Department of Health said that Ratard died this week, but provided no details as to why or where he died. Here's ...

Baton Rouge – State Epidemiologist Dr. Raoult Ratard has passed, according to a statement from the Louisiana Department of Health. The state Department of Health did not release the cause Dr. Ratard’s ...

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President Donald Trump’s daily press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic has been compared to many things: state propaganda, daily talk show, three-ring circus. It is somehow all of these things, but ...

French microbiologist Dr. Didier Raoult, who published a now-discredited paper in March 2020 claiming that hydroxychloroquine was effective at treating COVID-19, has threatened legal action against ...

Louisiana’s state epidemiologist has died at the age of 75.The state Department of Health did not release the cause of Raoult Ratard's death but said it did not involve the new coronavirus.Ratard's ...

Donald Trump has touted the anti-malarial drug as a COVID-19 "game changer." Not many had heard of hydroxychloroquine at the start of the year. Back in January, some doctors in China began treating ...

Although Professor Didier Raoult has been criticised for his encouragement of the use of chloroquine to combat COVID-19, some African countries are using the drug. On 24 March, Professor Didier Raoult ...

The discovery of more and more viruses of record-breaking size calls for a reclassification of life on Earth. These “zombie” cells are damaged yet refuse to die. Instead, they linger in the body, ...