While heart disease and cancer remain top causes, notable declines in overdose and COVID-19 deaths drove the improvement.

New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as ...

A new CDC report released Wednesday shows the U.S. death rate hit its lowest point in more than a century in 2025, suggesting ...

WASHINGTON — Americans continued to live longer in 2025 as the nation’s death rate dropped to the lowest level ever recorded, ...

Last month, a new research study published by a University of Wisconsin assistant professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs Héctor Pifarreé i Arolas concluded that the average life ...

A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report revealed that Americans continued to live longer in 2025, as the nation's death rate fell to its lowest level ever ...

U.S. life expectancy has doubled since 1776 thanks to vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation and clean water that reduced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. unk food, drug use and health policy decisions have affected U.S. life expectancy rates, and a new study projects that in 2050, ...

We've seen dramatic increases in life expectancy over the 19th and 20th centuries, thanks to healthier diets, medical advances and many other quality-of-life improvements. But after nearly doubling ...

Americans born after 1970 are dying faster than their parents, with higher rates of heart disease, cancer and overdoses between ages 30 and 49.

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