The United States is expected to make only minor gains in life expectancy over the next few decades, and this minimal improvement highlights an “alarming trajectory of health challenges” facing the ...

The U.S. is failing to keep pace with dozens of countries around the world due to the steady decline of the nation's health progress, according to a detailed analysis of all 50 states and Washington, ...

Americans’ life expectancy is expected to stall by 2050 because of increasing obesity and drug use, researchers said this week. Right now, the country is on an upward trajectory, but improvements are ...

Accelerating the decline in tobacco smoking globally, by decreasing smoking prevalence from current levels to 5% everywhere, could increase life expectancy and prevent millions of premature deaths by ...

First in-depth forecasts of future worldwide health impacts of smoking reveal potential effects of eliminating smoking on life expectancy and premature deaths by 2050. Based on current trends, global ...

The latest findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021, published today in The Lancet, forecast that global life expectancy will increase by 4.9 years in males and 4.2 years in females ...