A study led by Mayo Clinic found a “widening gap between lifespan and healthspan" among 183 countries. The lead researcher ...

Life expectancy in the United States is worse than in many other countries and declined from 1990 to 2021, data suggest.

Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than ...

The Left tends to blame our lack of universal health coverage for this downtrend. But our lagging life expectancy is largely ...

From 1990 to 2021, there was a decline in the United States ranking of life expectancy ... heart disease, lung cancer, and breast cancer. However, for other causes, rates increased over the same ...

Life expectancy in the United States is worse than many other countries and declined from 1990 to 2021, according to a study published in the Dec. 7 issue of The Lancet. Ali H. Mokdad, Ph.D., from the ...

but it may have a big impact on a person’s life. Individual treatment sessions can take up a lot of time. And because dialysis requires special equipment, people with kidney failure need to carefully ...

But certain lifestyle factors such as our diet and whether we smoke, for example, can affect our life expectancy ... protective effects against heart disease, stroke, certain cancers and other ...

Asian 85.6 83.6 83.5 84.5 White 78.8 77.4 76.7 77.5 Black 74.8 71.5 71.2 72.8 American Indian and Alaska Native 71.8 67.1 65.6 67.9 ...

kidney disease, perinatal conditions, congenital malformations, and nutritional deficiencies. Similarly, the 1.3-year improvement in the life expectancy of men in the US was primarily due to ...

Kidney doctors are called nephrologists. They treat conditions that affect the kidneys, like chronic kidney disease and kidney stones. They also may help people manage chronic conditions like diabetes ...