With the drastic increase in life expectancy seen over the last century or so, it's natural to assume that eventually we'll all be regularly living to 100. But a new study suggests that surge is ...

The rise in human life expectancy may be slowing down after nearly doubling over the last century, new research suggests. Over the 19th and 20th centuries, there have been dramatic increases in how ...

Life expectancy has long symbolized human progress, but what happens when that progress slows down or even reverses? Despite decades of medical and social advances, recent data show a troubling ...

NEW YORK — Humanity is hitting the upper limit of life expectancy, according to a new study. Advances in medical technology and genetic research — not to mention larger numbers of people making it to ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

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 ...

A new study from Northwestern University found that life expectancy in California has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, data that could indicate similar national trends. The study, published in the ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.71. For researchers studying aging — and thinking about how to extend our ...