A new study from Yale researchers estimates the life expectancy in cohorts born in 1900, 1950, and 2000. Not only do they ...

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The health of our nation is dependent upon the well-being of our children and the caregivers that look after them.

This American diet could add 10 years to your life. Earth’s longest-lived people follow what author Dan Buettner calls blue-zone diets—and now he’s found more of them in the United States.

A crisis of fake centenarians, manipulated data, and lies has made longevity and life-expectancy research, including the validity of so-called blue zones, highly unreliable.

The museum will honor the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s Black History Month theme for 2025, “African Americans and Labor,” and continue its yearlong digital campaign ...

We constructed a life table of the 2019 American population13 based on 2017 mortality data from the National Centre for Health Statistics14 ... (Q4), American life expectancy at birth would be 83.7 ...

US life expectancy will sink to 66th in the world by 2050, according to a major study. Americans already die younger than their contemporaries in about 50 other countries.

Between 2000 and 2010, life expectancy increased for every America except for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people living in the West (America 10), who had the shortest lifespan in 2010 ...

Between 2000 and 2010, life expectancy for all groups, except for AIAN individuals, grew longer. AIAN's life expectancy declined by a year. Between 2010 and 2019, life expectancy trends showed more ...

Black Americans showed the greatest increase in life expectancy over the study period, rising by as much as 3.7 years in that time — although improvements have stalled since 2019.