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February was the worst month of the U.S. flu and cold season, with 3% of U.S. adults reporting they had the flu and 9.3% reporting they had a cold. Both illnesses peaked at the usual time, despite the warmer winter weather.

This document includes the complete list of questions asked in the United States and United Kingdom as part of the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index.

Most Americans believe cancer screening tests are done about the right amount of time (58%) or not frequently enough (31%). Americans thus agree with the conventional wisdom about the benefits of these tests -- despite recent evidence that some ...

Tonight's GOP debate in South Carolina features five possible presidential candidates, four of whom are known to less than half of Republicans nationwide. As such, one much-sought-after outcome of the debate could be an increase in the precious ...

Six of the 11 metro areas where residents are most likely to have ever been diagnosed with depression are in the Appalachian region, according to well-being surveys conducted in 188 U.S. communities last year. Residents of these communities ...

Government employees at the federal, state, and local levels have higher overall well-being than U.S. nongovernment workers, according to a new analysis of Gallup-Healthways Well-Being data. Federal employees, however, lag behind their local, ...

A new analysis of more than 200,000 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index surveys from 2010 documents the extent to which low-income Americans suffer from inferior emotional and physical health, poorer health habits, and significantly less access ...

Low-income Britons have worse well-being and are in poorer physical health than their high-income counterparts, despite universal access to healthcare.

Americans hold similar moral judgments on 12 of 16 cultural matters that sometimes fuel debate in the country. By contrast, doctor-assisted suicide is highly controversial, as are gay relations, abortion, and having children out of wedlock.

Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's controversial Medicare proposal received a good deal of focus in the GOP debate in New Hampshire on Monday night. CNN moderator John King first zeroed in on the Ryan plan when talking to Newt Gingrich, whose comments ...