U.S. life expectancy starts to recover after sharp pandemic decline
The average life expectancy in the U.S. is now 77.5 years old, according to provisional 2022 data pu...
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Living Better: What it takes to get healthy in America
When COVID-19 hit, Americans watched the news in horror as the death count rose and rose again, with...
When a prison sentence becomes a death sentence
After spending 38 years in the Alabama prison system, one of the most violent and crowded in the nat...
'Live free and die?' The sad state of U.S. life expectancy
Just before Christmas, federal health officials confirmed life expectancy in America had dropped for...
Where there's gender equality, people tend to live longer
Both women and men are likely to live longer when a country makes strides towards gender equality, a...
Native Americans left out of 'deaths of despair' research
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American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades
The average life expectancy for Americans shortened by over seven months last year, according to new...
Life expectancy in the U.S. continues to drop, driven by COVID-19
Life expectancy in the U.S. fell in 2021, for the second year in a row. It was the first time life e...