An American born in 2024 can expect to live to be 79, on average. But people in other wealthy countries can expect to live longer.
In a discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, researcher Steven H. Woolf explains how the peculiar features of life, policy, and economics in America are killing us sooner, and what we can do to change ...
A new study from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health found major disparities in life expectancy between individual U.S. states.
Black Americans in every state have lower life expectancies than their White peers by 4 years on average. This is largely due ...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024 — the highest mark in American history. It’s the result of not only the dissipation of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also waning death rates ...
It is estimated that more than 10 million American adults consistently get less than seven hours of sleep every night. For long before there was any widespread understanding of the importance of ...