Decades of advances in medical technology and public health are causing global populations to age. While achieving longer ...

Findings from the data revealed that the shark’s life expectancy is at least 272 years, making it the oldest living of all vertebrate animals known to science. The research team looked at the eye ...

The life expectancy of patients diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) was found to be reduced compared with that of individuals without TB. Post-TB sequelae also reduced life expectancy and ...

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 ...

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus caused life expectancy in California to drop significantly. It’s now been over two years since officials declared the pandemic-related public ...

Life expectancy gap between the least and most educated widened to nearly 11 years by 2019, highlighting the urgent need to address education as a key social determinant of health. Study: Life ...