In late 2024, it was a month.

Hawaii had the longest life expectancy in the U.S. in 2022 at 80 years. West Virginia had the shortest at 72.2 years. New ...

(CNN) — Life expectancy fell across the majority of high-income countries, signaling a collective and simultaneous decline among affluent nations for the first time in decades, a new study finds.

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 in the United States dropped yet again as drug overdose deaths continued to climb -- taking more than 70,000 lives in 2017 -- and suicides rose, a US government report said Thursday.

Nearly 10 years have passed since a 2013 Institute of Medicine report drew attention to the US health disadvantage. For decades, the report explained, Americans had experienced poorer health, higher ...

New research suggests that getting even just a few more minutes of sleep and exercise and eating an extra cup of vegetables every day can significantly boost longevity ...