The latest findings forecast that global life expectancy will increase by 4.9 years in males and 4.2 years in females between 2022 and 2050. Increases are expected to be largest in countries where ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. Over the past 150 years, humanity has unleashed unimaginable energy by splitting ...

Life expectancy in the United States varies by more than 20 years depending on your race and ethnicity and where you live, according to new research. The authors call the level of health disparities ...

People are living longer and longer lives than before, but the pace of growth in life expectancy has dropped sharply since the early twentieth century 1. José Andrade at the Max Planck Institute for ...

We have collectively become obsessed with living forever. But according to a new study, all that biohacking may not be enough ...

Despite all the recent hype from anti-aging evangelists and companies touting ways to extend life, human life expectancy is actually slowing down after accelerating in the previous century. In a paper ...

A study involving more than half a million adults has confirmed that the combination of cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic conditions, collectively known as cardiovascular–kidney–metabolic (CKM) ...

Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is not one disease, but a cluster of related conditions. At their core, they stem from a disorder that develops when normal proteins produced by the liver suddenly ...