Life expectancy is projected to increase in the coming decades, to a worldwide average of 80.5 years for women and 76 years for men. These gains will come with fewer deaths from infectious diseases ...

People with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) frequently live well into adulthood. Advances in treatment have significantly increased the life expectancy for this condition. The median life expectancy ...

Life expectancy dropped from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.3 in 2020, the CDC estimated, blaming coronavirus deaths for 73.8% of the decline.

For decades, Social Security was built around the idea that most Americans would spend a meaningful stretch of life in retirement. That assumption is now being quietly tested. The full retirement age ...

Newsweek has created a map that highlights a sobering reality for parts of the United States: in dozens of U.S. counties, average life expectancy is now lower than that of North Korea.

Human life expectancy in high-income countries is no longer climbing at the rate it did in the 20th century, a new study suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Dysautonomia describes a group of conditions affecting your autonomic nervous system. This system controls automatic functions of the nervous system, like breathing and heartbeat. Certain changes in ...

Life expectancy in Summit County has declined from 78.5 years to 76.3 years between the periods of 2014-2018 and 2019-2023, a ...

A new nationwide analysis shows that getting fewer than seven hours of sleep a night is one of the strongest predictors of shorter life expectancy across U.S. counties.

Federal policy changes under the Trump administration could reverse New York City’s historic rise in life expectancy, the ...