People in the United States can expect to live longer than ever, as death rates returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2024.

U.S. life expectancy has hit the highest mark in American history. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday ...

The increase signals a rebound from declines during the pandemic and progress with the opioid crisis.

An American born in 2024 can expect to live to be 79, on average. But people in other wealthy countries can expect to live longer.

Hawaii had the longest life expectancy in the U.S. in 2022 at 80 years. West Virginia had the shortest at 72.2 years. New ...

(CNN) — Life expectancy fell across the majority of high-income countries, signaling a collective and simultaneous decline among affluent nations for the first time in decades, a new study finds.

Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. were among the areas with the highest life expectancy rates in the U.S. Researchers collected data using life expectancy patterns based on birth groups from ...

Nearly 10 years have passed since a 2013 Institute of Medicine report drew attention to the US health disadvantage. For decades, the report explained, Americans had experienced poorer health, higher ...

For the second year in a row, life expectancy at birth in the United States dropped sharply amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released this week. According to the Centers for Disease ...

American life expectancy dipped for a second consecutive year in 2016. This decline was once again largely fueled by soaring rates of opioid overdose deaths, according to two reports from the CDC’s ...