Most Americans find it easier to figure out their taxes than to sort out what they should be eating, the International Food Information Council finds.

 First Lady Michelle Obama starts a book tour of sorts next week to promote a book she’s written about her effort to get people to plant gardens and eat the veggies from them.

Most individual polices currently on the market could not be sold on state exchanges in 2014, a new report concludes.

Improving school lunches and nutrition education are a key way to get Americans healthy enough to join the military, and a badly divided Congress might be amenable to cooperating on this one issue, obesity policy experts said said Wednesday.

A large majority of Americans support a pair of congressional efforts to create an economy based on cleaner-energy sources, according to the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll.

Despite uncertainty about the coming U.S. Supreme Court decision on its constitutionality, the 2010 health care law already has triggered a long-term transformation in the way U.S. health care is delivered and paid for, a panel of specialists said on Tuesday.

The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments will not deploy an integrated electronic health record until 2017, eight years after President Obama kick-started the project, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki.

Fewer patients with diabetes are dying prematurely from heart disease and stroke, mostly due to better medical care but also because people are taking better care of themselves, federal health experts said on Tuesday.

If you want to reduce fatal injuries, the nanny state works, concludes a new report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.