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Louisiana’s health secretary taking on new role of state surgeon general
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Ralph Abraham, a physician and former Republican U.S. representative from Louisiana, has been named the state’s first surgeon general. Abraham has been serving as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. On Tuesday, Gov. …