While overall life expectancy rose, infant mortality remains a challenge. View the latest data from the CDC.

U.S. life expectancy has hit the highest mark in American history. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday ...

The latest death data for the U.S. are in, and they paint an optimistic picture: The average American born in 2024 is now ...

An American born in 2024 can expect to live to be 79, on average. But people in other wealthy countries can expect to live longer.

After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Old person A new study highlights worrying differences in life expectancy trends across the United States, showing that states are ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Sleep isn’t just about feeling rested—it may be one of the strongest predictors of how long you live. Researchers analyzing nationwide data found that insufficient sleep was more closely tied to ...

Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. were among the areas with the highest life expectancy rates in the U.S. Researchers collected data using life expectancy patterns based on birth groups from ...

The life expectancy for Connecticut women is six years longer than it was 50 years ago, and Connecticut men are living seven years longer, according to data released recently. The average life ...