A new study shows life expectancy in western countries is plateauing after decades of steady improvements. The study in the ...

Life expectancy for men lags five years behind life expectancy for women in the U.S. Some researchers and doctors say greater attention to men's health could bridge the gap.

Life expectancy in western countries, once on a steady upward trajectory, has hit a worrying slowdown with obesity, poor diet and physical inactivity taking a heavy toll.

A groundbreaking new study in The Lancet Public Health shows that the average increase in life expectancy across Europe has ...

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due to its higher life expectancy, as shown in Table 1. Furthermore, the greatest differences in health-care costs are not caused by smoking- and obesity-related diseases, but by the other ...

With the potential for once- or twice-yearly dosing, WVE-007 is uniquely positioned to address more than 1 billion people living with obesity globally,” said Paul Bolno, MD, MBA, President and Chief ...

Obesity is a chronic complex disease and a leading ... which are getting affected and then how we can enhance our healthy life style and then live longer and live healthier, you know, that is ...

Figure shows life expectancy by deprivation quintile in Stockport 2020 to 2022. The blue bars represent males and the red bars represent females. It shows that people in the least deprived quintiles ...