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By JONEL ALECCIA - AP Health Writer Here’s a quick quiz: What replaced the food pyramid, the government guide to healthy eating that stood for nearly 20…

PHOENIX (AP) — Drownings, child neglect and firearms contributed to an increase in child deaths in Arizona during 2021, marking the highest rate of child deaths in the last…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Yoo Young Yi’s grandmother gave birth to six children. Her mother birthed two. Yoo doesn’t…

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni presented the government’s first economic policy initiatives Tuesday,…

By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Have U.S. drug overdose deaths stopped rising? Preliminary government data suggests they may have,…

By ALEX SANZ - Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jane Fonda says the work of the Georgia-based nonprofit organization she founded to prevent teenage…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's ruling party leader has triggered anger in the country and an explosion of jokes by claiming that the country's low birthrate is partly caused…

By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during the…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court has cleared the way for the state’s largest electric utility to delay issuing rate credits related to the recent closure…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — In Mississippi, where health officials expect 5,000 more births each…