Mike Stobbe

Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

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  • 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
  • The pregnant woman in silhouette.Health

    ‘From the worst to the near worst’: Pregnancy deaths are declining after a horrific spike in 2021

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • This scanning electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows rod-shaped Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. Experts are marveling at how U.S. disease detectives figured out how eyedrops were linked to dozens of infections.Health

    How officials cracked case of eyedrops that blinded people: ‘A public health victory’

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Bird flu pelicansHealth

    Bird flu just became mink flu at a farm in Spain. That’s not the only jump the virus has made.

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • KindergartenersHealth

    Americans keep refusing to vaccinate their kindergarteners

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Woman holding drinkHealth

    The shocking toll of alcohol abuse during the pandemic is just becoming clear: A 30% surge to the worst in 40 years, CDC says

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Friends at barHealth

    ‘Liberated’ Americans are catching STDs at ‘out of control’ rates as the pandemic comes to an end

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A sign asks those getting vaccinated to keep 6 feet apart during the vaccination event, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, Calif. The CDC has again revised its COVID guidelines, further relaxing quarantine recommendations and dropping the recommendation that people stay at least 6 feet away from each other. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP, File)Health

    CDC drops quarantine requirement for COVID exposure: ‘The current conditions of this pandemic are very different from those of the last two years’

    By Mike Stobbe, Collin Binkley, and others
  • PolioHealth

    New York reports first U.S. polio case in nearly a decade

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Moderna's vaccine.Health

    FDA advisers back Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for older kids

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press