Broadcast Retirement Network's Jeffrey Snyder discusses whether science can extend human life with University of Chicago Illinois' S. Jay Olshansky, PhD. Jeffrey H. Snyder, Broadcast Retirement ...

After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved.

Since the early 20th century, sustained declines in mortality have driven steady increases in life expectancy, particularly in high-income countries. Several studies have reported that this ...

For most of human history, life unfolded quickly and ended abruptly. In the early 19th century, global life expectancy ...

(CNN) — Life expectancy fell across the majority of high-income countries, signaling a collective and simultaneous decline among affluent nations for the first time in decades, a new study finds.

The record-high life expectancy comes on the heels of former Mayor Eric Adams’ HealthyNYC initiative, which targets the key ...