Latest by Mike Stobbe

Published on November 18, 2023 - Page 6
NEW YORK -- The U.S. flu season is underway, with at least seven states reporting high levels of illnesses and cases rising in other parts of the...
Published on November 17, 2023 - Page 6
and KENYA HUNTER Associated Press Writers NEW YORK -- RSV infections are rising sharply in some parts of the country, nearly filling hospital...
Published on November 15, 2023 - Page 5
NEW YORK -- The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever, 3%, U.S. health...
Published on November 6, 2023 - Page 18
NEW YORK -- The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year -- the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...
Published on October 3, 2023 - Page 6
NEW YORK -- U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some...
Published on September 13, 2023 - Page 7
and LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writers Most Americans should get an updated COVID-19 vaccine, health officials said Tuesday. Advisers to the Centers...
Published on August 29, 2023 - Page 15
NEW YORK -- The smoke from Canadian wildfires that drifted into the U.S. led to a spike in people with asthma visiting emergency rooms --...
Published on August 27, 2023 - Page 5
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee -- "That's where I got shot," said Rashaad Woods, nodding toward a convenience store in Knoxville's "gun zone." There were...
Published on June 20, 2023 - Page 10
NEW YORK -- The homicide rate for older U.S. teenagers rose to its highest point in nearly 25 years during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the suicide...
Published on March 31, 2023 - Page 7
NEW YORK -- For every American killed by gunfire, an estimated two or more survive, often with terrible injuries. That's a fact public health experts...