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The Associated Press poll on health care, by Stanford University with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from Oct.

Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday.

The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest in the suffocation of 3,800 pigs at a hog operation near Hull in northwest Iowa.

The condition of children around the world has improved in the past five years, with fewer deaths and more access to education, UNICEF said in New York.

The American Cancer Society wants Thursday, November 19th, to be the day for smokers to kick the habit.

A new study by the Meals on Wheels Association of America shows roughly 3 million seniors are at risk of being hungry.

Hillsborough County schools have won $100 million to overhaul how teachers are trained and evaluated, with the hopes of increasing high school graduation rates.

Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention.

Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school a ' but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development, UNICEF said Thursday.

Most Americans want Congress to deal with malpractice lawsuits driving up the cost of medical care, says an Associated Press poll.

Australia must abolish policies that discriminate against Aborigines in its quest to lift its indigenous population out of Third World poverty, the head of an international human rights group said Wednesday.

GULFPORT - The American Cancer Society marks the 34th Great American Smokeout on Thursday by encouraging smokers to use the date to make a plan to quit or plan in advance to quit smoking that day.

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Holly Hazard of the Humane Society of the United States talks about what the organization is doing to keep the wild horse population under control.

Critics of the Cuban regime say nothing has changed under the leadership of Raul Castro.

Hillsborough County school board members this afternoon unanimously voted to accept a $100-million education grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The National Urban League is teaming with a small-business financial specialist to offer loans to companies unable to get approved by banks.

Thursday, Nov. 19 is the 34rd Great American Smokeout. The American Cancer Society initiated the event in 1976 as a day to encourage smokers to quit for one day.

A human rights watchdog has criticised the Egyptian government for not doing enough to ensure the safety of thousands of Cairo slum-dwellers. Amnesty International says Egypt failed to fully investigate a deadly rockslide in the Duwayqa area in September 2008.

The Hispanic College Fund and UNCF - the United Negro College Fund are accepting applications today through Feb.