Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women born in 2000 in Washington, D.C., have both the highest life expectancy, 93 years, and the biggest improvement since 1900, ...

A new study from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health found major disparities in life expectancy between individual U.S. states.

A new Boston Public Health Commission report found Black women in Boston die at 80, on average, six years earlier than other women. Black men average nine fewer years of life than others, living to 72 ...

The life expectancy gap between men and women in the U.S. has widened to the largest difference since 1996, with women expected to live almost six years longer than men, according to a recent study.

How long you live depends on where you live, new research suggests. Americans’ life expectancy increased throughout the 20th century, although in some states, particularly in the South, people aren’t ...

How long you live depends on where you live, new research suggests. Americans’ life expectancy increased throughout the 20th century, although in some states, particularly in the South, people aren’t ...