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By Laura Ungar and The Associated PressMay 23, 2026

HealthAmerican schools have been quietly killing recess to focus on test scores—and pediatricians are warning it’s a mistake
By Laura Ungar and The Associated PressMay 11, 2026

By Laura Ungar, Jonel Aleccia and The Associated PressApril 29, 2026

Health‘Babies become sitting ducks’: Babies too young for vaccines remain vulnerable in measles ‘hotbed’ communities
By The Associated Press, Laura Ungar and Devi ShastriApril 10, 2026

HealthIt’s not just vaccines. Parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns—even protection from severe bleeding and blindness
By Laura Ungar and The Associated PressMarch 21, 2026

Health‘We want more babies, to put it nicely’: Trump strikes deal for drugmaker to lower cost of common IVF drug
By Ali Swenson, Michelle L. Price, Laura Ungar and The Associated PressOctober 16, 2025

Health‘Kids are the canaries in the coal mine’: Huge study finds worse childhood obesity, depression, all-around ill health
By Laura Ungar, Jonel Aleccia and The Associated PressJuly 7, 2025

By Laura Ungar, Amanda Seitz and The Associated PressJune 10, 2025

HealthState and local health departments that do invisible but critical work are being hollowed out by cuts
By Laura Ungar, Michelle R. Smith and The Associated PressMay 31, 2025

By The Associated Press, Devi Shastri and Laura UngarMay 21, 2025

HealthTrump administration looks to claw back $11.4 billion in COVID funding from state and local health departments
By Laura Ungar and The Associated PressMarch 26, 2025

By Laura Ungar and The Associated PressFebruary 19, 2025

LifestyleBrown rats got to America nearly 300 years ago and wiped out black rats in just a few decades, says study that looked at 32 piles of rodent bones
By Laura Ungar and The Associated PressApril 3, 2024
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