A mega-study of 117 mammal species reveals that limiting reproduction increases life expectancy by up to 10 percent.

The U.S. has the shortest life expectancy among English-speaking countries, while Australia ranks highest, according to a study published in the BMJ Journal. American men and women live about five and ...

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 ...

Walk into just about any American coffee shop these days, and odds are the conversation skips right from politics to TikTok trends to – you guessed it – the cost of healthcare, the outbreak of the day ...

This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we mine public databases to tell quick stories about the world around us. Life expectancy in Kansas declined in ...

In Los Angeles County, your ZIP code is still a pretty good predictor of how long you are likely to live. A new countywide portrait finds a gap of more than 16 years in life expectancy between some ...

Figures for national life expectancy by country tend to be within bandwidths. At the moment, the US is relegated to the lower end by comparison with the rest of the world, one rank above Cuba. That is ...

Racism is a widespread issue in the United States, resulting in disparities including access to healthcare, life expectancy and homicide rates for Black men. Despite average life expectancy among ...