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  • doctor's scale.Health

    Severe obesity increasing among young American children, new study confirms

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – 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
  • SyphilisHealth

    The number of babies born with syphilis is 10 times higher than a decade ago—and 32% higher than 2021

    By Mike Stobbe, Kenya Hunter, and others
  • VapingHealth

    The teens are vaping less, as high school student ecigarette use plunges to 10% in nationwide CDC study

    By Mike Stobbe, Matthew Perrone, and others
  • Close-up view of Southeast Asian baby boy with medical plaster after vaccination in the medical clinicFamily

    A new RSV shot for babies is in such short supply that doctors have been advised to prioritize giving the drug to infants at high risk of severe disease

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Man in doctor's officeHealth

    STD rates are rising to record levels and the CDC plans to approve an antibiotic as a ‘morning-after pill’ for gay and bisexual men

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • RSVHealth

    Americans 60 and older can get a new RSV vaccine this fall

    By Mike Stobbe, Carla K. Johnson, and others
  • Covid boosterHealth

    Forget the original coronavirus vaccine. Your next booster will tackle the ‘Gryphon’ family of Omicron variants

    By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • Gen Z depressedMind

    Gen Z homicides hit 25-year high during COVID—and the suicide rate was the worst in over 50 years, CDC study says

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A doctor uses a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus on Dec. 17, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. U.S. births were flat in 2022, as the nation continues to see fewer babies born than before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)Health

    Americans are still having fewer babies than before the COVID-19 pandemic

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • A billboard put up by Families Against Fentanyl displays their message in El Monte, Calif.Health

    U.S. drug overdoses killed 110,000 last year as the fentanyl epidemic continues to take a huge toll. But experts see hopeful signs

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Cigarette butts fill a smoking receptacle outside a federal building in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. According to government survey data released Thursday, April 27, 2023, U.S. adults are smoking less. Cigarette smoking dropped to another new all-time low in 2022, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers. Meanwhile, e-cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Health

    America’s adult smoking rate just hit an all-time low in 2022

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Little kid playing a board game during education therapyHealth

    The rate of ‘profound’ autism is rising, but not as fast as milder cases, according to a new study

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • A police officer inspects a Jimenez Arms brand .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol during a gun turn-in event at Kingdom Word Church in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2022. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Health

    Gun injuries soared 40% early during the pandemic and have only slightly tapered off since

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Deleah Payne, 12, center, spends time with her mother Delisa, right, and 6-year-old sister Delynn, left, as they watch movie clips on their living room television in Evansville, Ind., Tuesday evening, Aug. 27, 2019. Deleah and Delynn were both diagnosed with autism. For the first time, autism is being diagnosed more frequently in Black and Hispanic children than in white kids in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, March 23, 2023.Family

    Autism is more common among Black and Hispanic kids for the first time ever—but only because screening is better

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press