Several countries have many centenarians living in them now, with the likelihood of more appearing each and every year. But which, exactly, are the countries with the longest life expectancy? In this ...

On average, people live longer, but the very oldest among us have not gotten older over the last thirty years.” That’s the ...

The Hearst Television Data Team has developed a tool to estimate your life expectancy using actuarial data from the Social ...

A new weight loss pill currently undergoing clinical trials could help burn fat and lower blood sugar levels like Ozempic and ...

Her courage is remarkable." Wisdom is the senior vice president of community health and equity at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. She also served as Michigan's first surgeon general.

Respiratory infections and other pandemic-related health issues drove the downturn from 2019 to 2021, but countries where life expectancy gains had slowed most in the 2010s were also more affected ...

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.

Life expectancy estimates revealed that males with ADHD lived 6.78 years less (73.26 years) and females 8.64 years less (75.15 years) than their matched counterparts.

People line up for free food, groceries and clothing at a weekly distribution in 2023 in Huntington, W.Va., a community struggling with a declining manufacturing base and a surge in opioid addiction ...

The five research papers published in this issue paint a bleak picture of health in the USA, with geographical, racial, ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic disparities at the heart of the country's ...

IHME also analyzed the US’ health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE), which is the average number of years a person can expect to live in good health. The US’ HALE global ranking is forecast to ...

An older man, image by Ahmet Demirel via Wikimedia / Public domain (CC0 1.0) An older man, image by Ahmet Demirel via Wikimedia / Public domain (CC0 1.0) A recent study analysed health data across ...