But there are still troubling disparities in New York City’s life expectancy depending on gender, race and income.

American life expectancy has stagnated since 2010 after decades of steady progress. While recent research has characterized this trend as a “double jeopardy” affecting both working-age adults and ...

Life expectancy is one of the clearest mirrors of a community’s health, and in one Southern state that reflection is troubling. South Carolina residents are now expected to live roughly four years ...

Humans are living 20 years longer than they were in 1950, according to new research with all 204 countries and territories studied reporting declines in their mortality rates since then. But vast ...

Life expectancy at birth is one of the most telling and often-cited public health measures, and in the United States, recent year-over-year changes in average life expectancy have been less than ...