Life expectancy in Scotland remains the lowest in western Europe and less than it was before the pandemic – despite a slight increase in the past year, official figures have revealed. National Records ...

An analysis of data from a study published in 'The Lancet Public Health' highlights the stagnation of progress in reducing ...

Americans' lifespans are increasing, but it's still nowhere near to the highs of before the pandemic, a new CDC report said this month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said U.S. life ...

Life expectancy may have fallen across Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic, but longevity gains were tapering off for nearly ...

Life expectancy is expected to rise worldwide by 2050, according to findings recently published by The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. The institute cites ...

Life expectancy in Scotland continues to be lower than in any other UK nation as men and women face a ‘postcode lottery’ on how long they will live. Girls born between 2022 and 2024 can expect to ...

New research uncovers the hidden cost of the pandemic: millions of years of healthy life lost, with poorer countries and older adults hit hardest. Study: Direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic that reached Europe in 2020 has often been compared to the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. In this article, we compare the two pandemics in terms of their respective impacts on the ...

Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, assistant professor and co-director of the Urban Health Collaborative, in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a Feb 19 El Mundo (Spain) story about a recent study ...