Even with all the medical advances of the past century, mortality rates saw a spike that has now turned into stagnation.

Let’s keep it 100 — your chances of becoming a centenarian are slim. Medical breakthroughs, public health achievements and better diets led to steep increases in global life expectancy in the 1800s ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. Over the past 150 years, humanity has unleashed unimaginable energy by splitting ...

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 ...

Life expectancy is increasing. If you're close to retirement age, here's what you might want to spend your time doing, and ...

"[It] works out to be almost seven hours of life lost per pack," says the lead author of the study For every cigarette an individual smokes, their life expectancy shrinks by 20 minutes overall, ...

This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we mine public databases to tell quick stories about the world around us. Life expectancy in South Carolina ...

Americans are living longer. Mississippi's life expectancy is lower than the national average. Why? Map shows counties where people live longest ...