Why are people born in the 1950s doing so much worse than their elders, and why has every generation since seen worsening ...

Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States live nearly four years less than ...

Woolf argues that America’s exceptionalism is not about health but rather how it’s approached. Policy choices, social conditions, and deep inequalities are driving a health disadvantage that hits ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Life expectancy in America had been on a steady increase over the past few decades. Then came the pandemic. But one group, in particular, was hit especially hard. This summer, the ...

U.S. life expectancy reached a record high in 2024, rising to 79 years as the nation continued its post-pandemic recovery and saw a decline in overdose deaths. New data released Thursday by the ...

Americans today live roughly twice as long, on average, as they did when the Declaration of Independence was signed. When the nation was founded in 1776, life expectancy was around 35 to 40 years old, ...

Teton County residents have a life expectancy of 94 years, easily the highest in Wyoming and about 15 years longer than the ...

It’s no secret that life expectancy in the United States is among the lowest in the developed world and has been since long before the Covid-19 pandemic. The United States ranked 29 th in life ...

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 ...