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The percentage of Americans who want to ban smoking entirely in the U.S. continues to climb, and support for a ban in all public places remains higher than in the past. Americans still believe smoking and secondhand smoke are harmful.

To compete in rapidly expanding markets, the country's hospitals must tightly manage their costs to keep services affordable. One solution they've overlooked: engaging employees -- a potentially harmful oversight.

One in five Americans struggle at times to afford food -- up from earlier this year and more than have said so since October 2011 and amid the recession.

In the U.S., 51% of adults want to lose weight, but half as many are seriously working toward that goal. Americans are still much more likely to classify their weight as "about right" than "overweight."

As we recently reported, a snapshot of American public opinion last week showed that the majority of Americans favor the U.S. coming to the aid of South Korea should North Korea decide to invade again -- as it did in 1950. This comes as no ...

U.S. workers with depression miss an estimated 68 million additional days of work each year compared with those who have never been diagnosed, resulting in an estimated cost of more than $23 billion in lost productivity annually.

Nearly 6 in 10 Americans younger than 65 with health insurance rate their health as either "excellent" or "very good," compared with 36% of the uninsured. Insured Americans are as likely as or more likely than the uninsured to report having ever ...

Americans' views toward a number of moral issues have shifted significantly since 2001. But their acceptance of gay and lesbian relations has increased the most, up 19 percentage points in the past 12 years.

Americans living in the U.S. metropolitan areas with the lowest well-being are about twice as likely to have experienced a heart attack as those in the metro areas with the highest well-being.

In the U.S., those in poverty struggle more than other Americans with a wide array of chronic illnesses, with depression disproportionately affecting those in poverty the most. But many of those in poverty lack the basics needed to treat or ...