A person's age is one of the best predictors of how much longer they are likely to live. This is the main idea behind life expectancy. Life expectancy is a statistical measure of how long a person is ...

Imagine if a photo could tell you more about your health than your last check-up? A groundbreaking study from Mass General Brigham, published in journal The Lancet Digital Health, recently introduced ...

Life expectancy in the United States is rising nearly as quickly as it fell at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses drop. After falling 2.4 years between 2019 ...

The state’s life expectancy was lower in 2024 than in 2019, according to an analysis, but primarily as a result of causes of death other than Covid. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn If the nation’s largest ...

Life expectancy is back to pre-pandemic levels, according to global health research — but mortality rates for teens and young adults are of growing concern. The latest release of The Global Burden of ...

THURSDAY, Sept. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Bad news for folks hoping to become a centenarian: Average life expectancy isn’t expected to exceed 100 years anytime soon, a new study says. Life expectancy ...

It's not just GDP, unaffordability and unemployment; a number of basic social indicators in Canada are getting worse ...

The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women and from 6.5 to just over 2 years, respectively, in men, finds a systematic ...

At what age do people die on average around the world? This simple question reveals vast inequalities between countries and regions. Measured by life expectancy at birth, this indicator synthesizes ...

Spain has climbed back to third in OECD life expectancy after its post-pandemic recovery, driven by diet, lifestyle and ...