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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City residents are living longer than ever before, but longstanding demographic disparities have persisted across the five boroughs. On Tuesday, the city Health ...

The 2022 Bexar County community health needs assessment revealed a painful truth: Where you live in San Antonio has a powerful influence on your health and your life expectancy. The report found that ...

Background The relationship of social determinants of health (SDOH), environmental exposures and medical history to lung function trajectories is underexplored. A better understanding of these ...

Federal policy changes under the Trump administration could reverse New York City’s historic rise in life expectancy, the city's top doctor warned Friday. Mayor Eric Adams’ administration set a goal ...

I’ll be honest. I can sometimes be like the shoemaker whose kids are barefoot. As an example, I write a lot about health and wellness. I’ve covered study after study about the importance of sleep. I ...

Insufficient sleep is one of the strongest predictors of shorter life expectancy in the U.S., surpassed only by smoking. That's according to a new nationwide analysis published in the journal SLEEP ...

(NEXSTAR) – As Ben Franklin once famously said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Eventually, we all die, but that may appear sooner than others for a variety ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Center for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. They estimate ...

The housing market keeps getting worse. Home prices have risen more than 50 percent since the start of the pandemic. About a third of Americans households now spend more than 30 percent of their ...

Gurven is distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of California-Santa Barbara and the author of “Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer.” We’re living in the age of the ...

Life expectancy is on the rise, but you wouldn't know it talking to American adults today. Research shows that middle-aged and older Americans consistently underestimate how long they're likely to ...