Around the world, living conditions have dramatically improved thanks to modern medicine and technology. As such, people are ...

Any physical activity that replaces sedentary time is good for health, but which sport adds the most years to life expectancy ...

World Health Rankings compiles various health data from around the world, including details about life expectancy and causes ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates life expectancy in the US is now higher than at any point since the coronavirus pandemic, predicting an average lifetime of ...

When planning for retirement, it's helpful to better understand how long your savings need to last. Current life expectancy ...

U.S.: No. 1 for 'Burdened by Disease' While people around much of the world generally have been ... burdened by disease or disability. Global life expectancy in recent decades increased by 6.5 ...

If a smoker who smokes 10 cigarettes daily quits on January 1st, they can prevent losing a full day of life by January 8th.

If you are looking for a good reason to follow through with your New Year’s resolution to kick your smoking habit a new study ...

On average, a single cigarette takes 20 minutes off a person’s life, according to a new study published at University College ...

Life expectancy in the United States is rising nearly as quickly as it fell at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses drop. After falling 2.4 years between ...

NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy jumped last year, and preliminary data suggests there may be another — much smaller — improvement this year. Death rates fell last year for almost all leading ...

Smokers are being urged to kick the habit for 2025 after a fresh assessment of the harms of cigarettes found they shorten ...