Mike Stobbe

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  • Susan MonarezPolitics

    Trump fires CDC head after one month on the job. Her lawyers say she ‘refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives’

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • BabyHealth

    American fertility rate hits all-time low

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • RFK Jr. gesticulates in a hearingHealth

    RFK Jr. and his new vaccine committee are obsessing over thimerosal, a preservative antivaxxers have falsely tied to autism despite zero evidence of causation

    By Mike Stobbe, Lauran Neergaard, and others
  • Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, left, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wave as they leave an event about the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) program and SNAP choice changes, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at the USDA Whitten Building, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Health

    RFK Jr.’s new CDC panel dominated by skeptics of Biden-era vaccine policies

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 22: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks about a new Make America Healthy Again Commission report in the East Room of the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. The commission, which is tasked with studying the potential causes for the “childhood chronic disease crisis,” recommends reassessing the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule, scrutinizing ultra-processed foods and studying pesticides used in commercial farming. The Trump administration has proposed a FY2026 budget of $94 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services — a reduction of about 26-percent from the 2025 level — cutting programs and staff at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Lifestyle

    RFK Jr. says COVID vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A sign stands at an entrance to the main campus of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)Health

    Autism treatment is exploding across the U.S.— and now 1 in 31 kids are getting diagnosed

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visits University of Utah to discuss Utah’s new fluoride ban and food additives legislation, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Melissa Majchrzak)Health

    RFK Jr. says he’ll tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water as the EPA reviews ‘new scientific information’

    By Hannah Schoenbaum, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • David Weldon speaks into a microphonePolitics

    David Weldon will not be the next CDC director. One senator says she was ‘deeply disturbed’ to hear Trump’s former nominee ‘repeat debunked claims about vaccines’

    By Zeke Miller, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • CDC office entrance with a plantPolitics

    ‘Read this email immediately’: CDC calls 180 employees back to work 2 weeks after firing them

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • The CDC logo shown outside the company's Atlanta headquartersPolitics

    Nearly 1,300 CDC employees are being forced out as Trump demands the agency rid itself of all probationary employees

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • A pregnant woman holds her bump thoughtfully in her modern kitchen window on a sunny dayHealth

    Black women in the U.S. are more than 3 times as likely to die in childbirth than white women, according to new data

    By The Associated Press and Mike Stobbe
  • Man coughing sitting on sofa in living roomHealth

    Surging cases and lagging vaccines: Why this U.S. flu season has experts worried

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Iron crosses marking graves are silhouetted against storm clouds building over a cemetery Saturday, May 25, 2024, in Victoria, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)Health

    U.S. life expectancy jumped up by a year thanks to falling drug overdoses and heart disease

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • A dirty duck is being handled by a man wearing glovesHealth

    First severe case of bird flu in the U.S. leaves Louisiana patient in critical condition

    By Mike Stobbe, Jonel Aleccia, and others
  • Residents attend a Durango City Council meeting to speak about the continued fluoridation of the city’s drinking water, Nov. 5, 2024, in Durango, Colo. (Christian Burney/The Durango Herald via AP)Health

    With RFK Jr. in the wings, dozens of American towns are debating the removal of cavity-preventing fluoride from drinking water

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press