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US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes among high-income countries, new report finds | CNN

Fitness & Health: CNN  —  The United States spends more on health care than any other high-income country but still…

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Study: U.S. gun death rates hit highest levels in decades

Fitness & Health: NEW YORK — The U.S. gun death rate last year hit its highest mark in nearly three…

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Poles vent anger at leader over his policies, ideas on women

Fitness & Health: WARSAW, Poland — Some 300 demonstrators gathered Monday outside the house of Poland’s ruling party leader to…

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US overdose deaths may be peaking, but experts are wary

Fitness & Health: NEW YORK — Have U.S. drug overdose deaths stopped rising? Preliminary government data suggests they may have,…

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Alcohol death toll is growing, US government reports say

Fitness & Health: NEW YORK — The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30%…

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Women’s clinic in South Sudan a casualty of distracted world

Fitness & Health: MINGKAMAN, South Sudan — In a country where the maternal mortality rate is one of the highest…

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Abortion ruling means more and riskier births in Mississippi

Fitness & Health: GREENWOOD, Miss. — In Mississippi, where health officials expect 5,000 more births each year as a result…

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WHO: COVID-19 vaccination rates have dropped 50% in Africa

Fitness & Health: DAKAR, Senegal — The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses given in Africa has dropped by more than…

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Pregnant women struggle to find care after Pakistan’s floods

Fitness & Health: RAJANPUR, Pakistan — The first five months of Shakeela Bibi’s pregnancy were smooth. She picked out a…

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In a nod to JFK, Biden pushing ‘moonshot’ to fight cancer

Fitness & Health: WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to channel John F. Kennedy on the 60th anniversary of…

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