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Type 1 diabetes can take years off your life. Reduced life expectancy is one of the condition’s most frightening complications. But there is reason for optimism. Although studies have suggested ...

Experts, officials and lawmakers acknowledged that a political pledge to reverse the nation’s life expectancy slide could quickly backfire, given the need to focus on long-term goals that might ...

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New research suggests that human life expectancy has hit its peak based on global statistics. Researcher S. Jay Olshansky explains why the focus should shift to healthspan extension.

The U.S. ranks 29th in life expectancy at birth among peer nations in the OECD. Changing that goes well beyond the health care system.

The rate falls short of some scientists’ expectations that life expectancy would increase at an accelerated pace in this century and that most people born today will live past 100 years.

An inaugural men’s health strategy for England, which is expected this year, aims to address the 4-year life expectancy gap between men and women by implementing targeted interventions.

New research revealed the rate of improvement in life expectancy slowed from 2011 to 2019, especially in England, despite increases across Europe from 1990 to 2011.