Mike Stobbe

Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

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  • FILE – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is seen, April 5, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Health

    America’s STD epidemic shows signs of slowing as new syphilis and gonorrhea cases fall

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Teenager lighting up a cigarette.Health

    Teen smoking hits 25-year low, CDC reports

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • NEW YORK – DECEMBER 8: Chickens wait in a cage at the Chicken Market, a live chicken dealer and slaughter house, December 8, 2004 in New York City. Recent outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Asian nations have forced the slaughter of millions of chickens, ducks, and other birds across Asia. This year there have been 44 confirmed human cases of H5N1 flu in Thailand and Vietnam including 32 fatalities. In Asia the virus has spread from birds to humans, and the World Health Organization is warning governments that if the virus mutates into a form that can be spread from one person to another, a pandemic could result. The outbreak of bird flu on farms in Delaware and Maryland earlier this year were mild forms that did not affect humans. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Health

    How did a Missouri resident get bird flu without exposure to animals? Officials say it’s a rare ‘one-off’

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Syringes with vaccines are prepared at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans’ Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)Health

    As COVID-19 cases tick up, U.S. health officials recommend new shots for all Americans this fall

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Dairy cows stand together at a farm, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Clinton, Maine. Federal health and agriculture officials pledged new spending and other efforts Friday, May 10, 2024, to help track and contain an outbreak of bird flu in the nation’s dairy cows that has spread to more than 40 herds in nine states. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)Health

    U.S. pledges $200 million and other aid to help track and contain bird flu on dairy farms

    By Jonel Aleccia, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • Massachusetts General HospitalHealth

    The first-ever pig kidney transplant just happened in Boston, doctors say

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • WeddingLife

    American marriages have finally recovered from the pandemic

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Businesswoman working wearing a protective mask<br /> Pixelfit/Getty ImagesHealth

    U.S. health officials drop 5-day isolation time for COVID-19

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • The main gate to Camp Lejeune Marine Base outside Jacksonville, N.C., on April 29, 2022. Military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune from 1975 to 1985 had at least a 20% higher risk for a number of cancers than those stationed elsewhere, federal health officials said Wednesday, in a long-awaited study of the North Carolina base's contaminated drinking water.Health

    Camp Lejeune water contamination tied to a range of cancers—from leukemia to thyroid—in troops and civilians alike, CDC study finds

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • It's not clear why syphilis rose 9% in 2022 while gonorrhea dropped 9%, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, adding that it's too soon to know whether a new downward trend is emerging for the latter.Health

    The US syphilis rate has hit a near 75-year high. Scientists are baffled

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Over-the-shoulder view of an unrecognizable woman looking at the thermometer because she is sick while sitting on the sofa covered with a blanket.Health

    Flu and COVID infections got worse over the holidays, with more misery expected, CDC says

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Healthcare workers wear protective masks at the Covid-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. California had coronavirus case average numbers drop by more than a third in the course of a week. Such improvements inspired California Governor Gavin Newsom to ease social-distancing measures earlier this week. Photographer: Nic Coury/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHealth

    Soaring COVID and flu cases, described as ‘moderately severe’ in number, are prompting hospitals to restore mask mandates

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Holiday seasonHealth

    Santa’s super-spreader season: Health officials say flu, COVID set to spike during the holidays

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • doctor's scale.Health

    Severe obesity increasing among young American children, new study confirms

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE &#8211; A couple walks through a park at sunset, March 10, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. U.S. life expectancy rose in 2022 — by more than a year — after plunging two straight years at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new government report released on Nov. 29, 2023. The rise was mainly due to the waning of the pandemic in 2022, researchers said at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Health

    U.S. life expectancy rose last year by more than a year, but it’s still far below what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press