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 ...

New projections for U.S. life expectancy forecast a slight increase by 2050, though the nation is expected to fall behind many other nations in global health rankings, according to research published ...

A new analysis forecasts the US will fall to 66 out of 204 countries in life expectancy rankings in 2050, down from 49th in 2022. The United States is expected to make only minor gains in life ...

The United States would lag behind most of the high income nations and some middle-income countries in terms of overall life expectancy, a new study published in Lancet found out. The country would ...

Life expectancy (LE) in the U.S. is forecasted to increase from 78.3 years in 2022 to 79.9 years in 2035 and to 80.4 years in 2050 for all sexes combined. This modest increase lowers the country’s ...

Future widespread suffering won’t be caused by some unforeseen disaster but by all-too-obvious, painfully predictable reasons. A person wades through water while waiting for aid on September 1, 2021, ...

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 ...