Life Expectancy, Longevity | featured news

San Francisco researchers have come up with a test to predict how likely people 50 and over are to die in the next decade. Ideally, you want to score as low as possible. That typically means being younger and not having certain health conditions (like lung disease, heart failure or most cancers). It also means being at least slightly overweight, according to the new study that detailed the index.

Education may not only improve a person's finances, it is also linked to better health habits and a longer life.

Science has shown that diets that veer close to starvation can make everything from mice to monkeys live longer.

Hispanics live longer than whites or blacks, according to the first life expectancy data for the U.S. Hispanic population, which was released ...