By Tarun Sai Lomte A sweeping cohort-based analysis of four decades of mortality data reveals how cardiovascular deaths, external causes, and generational health patterns are reshaping longevity in ...

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After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved.

Despite major advances in medicine, U.S. life expectancy barely budged in the 2010s, and it still lags that of other wealthy nations. Researchers have pointed to rising "deaths of despair"—drug ...

Life expectancy in the United States varies dramatically based on where someone lives. A groundbreaking study by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) examined more than 179 million ...

* Life expectancy growth in high-income nations is slowing for generations born after 1939 * Reduced gains in early-age mortality improvements are the primary cause of the slowdown * //While medical ...

Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. were among the areas with the highest life expectancy rates in the U.S. Researchers collected data using life expectancy patterns based on birth groups from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Approximately 525,000 more deaths occurred in the United States in ...

A new study highlights worrying differences in life expectancy trends across the United States, showing that states are far from equal when it comes to implementing public health measures and ...