Recent findings challenge the long-standing belief in the steady rise of life expectancy in the United States. A significant ...

New data on a widening nine-year life expectancy gap between rich and poor retirees demonstrates the devastating impacts of the US' profit-driven healthcare system.

For kids born in the U.S in 2014, average life expectancy is 79.08. But the extreme highs and lows in life expectancy are changing in a disturbing way.

South Carolina has one of the lowest life expectancies in the United States, reflecting inequalities in health and the ...

Researchers found that life expectancy growth in wealthy nations has dramatically slowed since 1939. Once driven by major ...

Life expectancy in the USA is considerably lower than in most high-income countries, with many deaths considered preventable.

Many studies assessing human lifetime have used a period life expectancy approach, which is a synthetic statistic that ...

The average life expectancy in the US is estimated to drop by 1.13 years due to the impact of the coronavirus on the overall health of Americans, a pair of university researchers concluded in a ...

Older people who earn less than $20,000 a year die nine years sooner on average than those who earn $120,000 or more. That's the conclusion of a new analysis that shows a strong connection between ...

For generations, Social Security has been seen as a cornerstone of retirement income in America. But now, as costs rise and ...

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) recently released a report finding that much of the United States is not keeping up with worldwide gains in life expectancy. Overall, "more than ...