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 ...

MADISON, W.Va. -- If you want to understand why U.S. life expectancy is declining, West Virginia is a good place to start. The state is a bellwether of bad health, portending major problems years ...

The most recently available chart of U.S. life expectancy at birth from 1900 to 2021. Courtesy of the federal National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) Report Volume 72, Number 12. Formaspace offers a ...

People line up for free food, groceries and clothing at a weekly distribution in 2023 in Huntington, W.Va., a community struggling with a declining manufacturing base and a surge in opioid addiction ...

RFK Jr. has been criticizing the American health system for many years, and now may get seated as head of Health and Human Services as Trump’s new favorite for the job. One health measure — life ...

New projections for U.S. life expectancy forecast a slight increase by 2050, though the nation is expected to fall behind many other nations in global health rankings, according to research published ...

U.S. mortality rates for Americans ages 25 to 34 has increase every year since an initial spike in 2010 due to opioid overdose-related deaths, according to federal data cited by the Lubbock ...

How long you live depends on where you live, new research suggests. Americans’ life expectancy increased throughout the 20th century, although in some states, particularly in the South, people aren’t ...

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