New health data released last week showed that life expectancy rates for American Indian and Alaska Natives increased by 4.5 years, the largest increase among racial and ethnic groups,according to a ...

Life expectancy reached 79 years in the U.S. in 2024, marking its highest age in American history. Lower death rates were reported for all the leading causes of death, including heart disease and ...

A study tracks how the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade competition with Mexico led to earlier deaths for American factory workers.

Walk into just about any American coffee shop these days, and odds are the conversation skips right from politics to TikTok trends to – you guessed it – the cost of healthcare, the outbreak of the day ...

People in the United States are living longer than ever before, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A report released Thursday by the CDC’s National Center ...

Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the American ...

A groundbreaking study published in PLOS One indicates that a landmark federal plan could increase average life expectancy for all Americans by 2.6 years while significantly improving overall ...

Life expectancy in the United States varies dramatically based on where someone lives. A groundbreaking study by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) examined more than 179 million ...

Death rates for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are far higher than reported in official vital statistics, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has never been afraid to challenge conventional wisdom — sometimes aligning with scientific consensus, often rejecting it. Now, as secretary of Health and Human Services, Kennedy ...

A new Boston Public Health Commission report found Black women in Boston die at 80, on average, six years earlier than other women. Black men average nine fewer years of life than others, living to 72 ...