Life expectancy gaps in the United States have widened dramatically over the past two decades, with disparities across racial ...

This was the second consecutive year the nation's life expectancy increased after dropping more than two years from 2019 to 2021. Here's a look at what the numbers reveal. In 2020, the life ...

The gap widened to 13.9 years in 2010, jumped to 18.9 years in 2020, and now in the latest data, 20.4 years in 2021. During those two decades, the study says, "US life expectancy has shifted in ...

Americans’ health has long been unequal, but a new study shows that the disparity between the life expectancies of different ...

U.S. life expectancy jumped last year ... But most of them occurred in 2020 and 2021, before vaccination- and infection-induced immunity became widespread. The coronavirus was once the nation ...

Life expectancy in the United States jumped in 2023, and preliminary data suggests there may be another — much smaller — improvement in 2024.

Bad habits such as junk food, smoking and illicit drug use are preventing longer lifespans even as technology brings major ...

The best we have is that Americans are living longer again, continuing to improve from our 2020 numbers ... that could take us back to the “good old days” of life expectancy numbers from ...

New research finds that each cigarette someone smokes, on average, can take about 20 minutes off their life expectancy overall. FOX Medical Team's Dr. Mike has details.