内容摘要：“If the vaccine were no longer available or covered by insurance, it will take the choice away from families who wish to protect their children from COVID-19, especially among families already facing barriers to care,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

“If the vaccine were no longer available or covered by insurance, it will take the choice away from families who wish to protect their children from COVID-19, especially among families already facing barriers to care,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Under Mexico’s new order, schools must phase out any food and beverage displayingmarking it as high in salt, sugar, calories and fat. Mexico implemented that

Enforced from Monday morning, the start of the school week, the junk food ban also requires schools to serve more nutritious alternatives to junk food, like bean tacos, and offer plain drinking water.A child snacks on a frozen dessert at Chapultepec park in Mexico City, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)A child snacks on a frozen dessert at Chapultepec park in Mexico City, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

“It is much better to eat a bean taco than a bag of potato chips,” said, who has championed the ban.

Mexico’s children consume more junk food than anywhere else in Latin America, according to UNICEF, which classifies the nation’s childhood obesity epidemic as an emergency. Sugary drinks and highly processed foods account for 40% of the total calories that children consume in a day, the agency reports.

“At my daughter’s school, they told us that future activities wouldn’t have candy, it would be completely different, with fruit, vegetables and other food that’s healthy for kids,” said Aurora Martínez, a mother of two. “It will help us a lot.”Craig Jones helps a patient at Basin Pharmacy in Basin, Wyo.. His pharmacy is the key health care access point for the town of about 1,300 people and the surrounding area. (AP Photo/Mike Clark)

Craig Jones helps a patient at Basin Pharmacy in Basin, Wyo.. His pharmacy is the key health care access point for the town of about 1,300 people and the surrounding area. (AP Photo/Mike Clark)Pharmacist Craig Jones makes house calls when no one else can, answers his phone at all hours of the night and stops to chat about bowel movements at church. Yet Jones keeps a pile of his own paychecks on a desk in the back of his pharmacy. Four months’ worth, uncashed.

“Every year, it’s a little worse,” Jones said of the financial pressures on his business.Rural pharmacies, independent or chain, can be a