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

The US death rate just hit a record low, and there's reason to hope the trend will continue.

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

The average life expectancy in the U.S. has been on the decline for three consecutive years. A baby born in 2017 is expected to live to be 78.6 years old, which is down from 78.7 the year before, ...

While life expectancy across the U.S. declined significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health ...

A recent research letter published July 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), titled “The Failure of Life Expectancy to Fully Rebound to Prepandemic Levels,” paints a damning ...

Life expectancy for Californians has yet to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, and is still nearly one year shorter than it was before COVID-19, new research shows. In 2024, life expectancy for ...