Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Approximately 525,000 more deaths occurred in the United States in ...

In a discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, researcher Steven H. Woolf explains how the peculiar features of life, policy, and economics in America are killing us sooner, and what we can do to change ...

For many of the 2,600 residents of South Franklinton, opportunities for a higher quality of life remain stubbornly out of reach. Amid the smattering of low-income housing tucked around the evidence of ...

Massachusetts residents are living longer lives than nearly the rest of the country, but in Boston you’ll find the life expectancy for Black residents is lagging far behind the rest of the city. The ...

A recent research letter published July 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), titled “The Failure of Life Expectancy to Fully Rebound to Prepandemic Levels,” paints a damning ...

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 ...

Learn how standard of living is defined, measured, and what factors like housing and economic opportunity influence it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Life expectancy differs by sexual orientation, data shows, prompting questions as to the causes. Michael Brandt/dpa People who ...