Month: August 2024
Franklin Parish has highest amounts of heart and lung disease compared to rest of U.S. researchers want to know why
Pennington Biomedical Research Center is a part a study of heart and lung diseases and they just set up a site to collect research data in Franklin Parish. The study is funded by the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health …
RURAL Health and Lung Study Heads to Franklin Parish
The Risks Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal, or RURAL, Heart and Lung study will arrive in Louisiana’s Franklin Parish on Tuesday, Aug. 13. The study team, who were stationed in Assumption Parish starting in February 2024, are conducting a comprehens …
First-of-its-kind rural health research making a stop in Franklin Parish
A study team is traveling to Franklin Parish as part of a study designed to help researchers understand underlying health risks residents in rural communities face. The Risks Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal (RURAL) Heart and Lung study is looking t …
Heart disease is rampant in parts of the rural South. Researchers are hitting the road to learn why
Public health experts from some of the nation’s leading research institutions have deployed a massive medical trailer to rural parts of the South to test and survey thousands of local residents. The goal: to understand why the rates of heart and lung d …