It's a puzzle that's plagued scientists for years - why do smarter children tend to live longer? Now, experts have uncovered ...

There were 24.0 centenarians per 100,000 people in the UK in 2024, up from 13.9 per 100,000 in 2004. The rate varies across ...

The number of men in the UK living to a very old age is increasing faster than the rate for women, helping to push the elderly population to a new record high, figures show. Some 210,520 males were ...

Even as life expectancy has increased in recent decades, whether someone was healthy did not match it. Here are ways to look at it.

New data indicates that life expectancy in Israel has jumped to almost a full additional year, leaving Israel at #4 in OECD ...

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Abacus Global Management reports increased lifespans are straining retirement security, highlighting a growing savings gap ...

The researchers also found that the sex most involved in raising offspring tends to have a greater lifespan. In longer-lived ...

Previous research investigating sex differences in brain ageing has shown mixed results, Ravndal adds. Several studies have ...

Humans are living 20 years longer since 1950, but rising death rates among adolescents and global health inequities pose new ...

People with Duchenne muscular dystrophy have a shorter-than-average life expectancy due to changes in muscles that affect breathing, heart activity, and other functions. However, treatment advances ...