Americans’ life expectancy is expected to stall by 2050 because of increasing obesity and drug use, researchers said this week. Right now, the country is on an upward trajectory, but improvements are ...

(CNN) — The United States is expected to make only minor gains in life expectancy over the next few decades, and this minimal improvement highlights an “alarming trajectory of health challenges” ...

Life expectancy around the world is expected to increase by nearly 5 years in men and more than 4 years in women during the next three decades, researchers predict. These increases are expected to be ...

Life expectancy is projected to increase in the coming decades, to a worldwide average of 80.5 years for women and 76 years for men. These gains will come with fewer deaths from infectious diseases ...

The latest findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021, published today in The Lancet(link is external), forecast that global life expectancy will increase by 4.9 years in males and ...