If you are poor, a minority and live in either southern or western America, you are likely to die up to 20 years earlier than your peers. That is the shocking conclusion of a study published in The Lancet that tracked shifts in life expectancy by geography, income and ethnicity over the last two decades.
Getty Images Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) does not shorten or lengthen the life expectancy of those taking it to ease menopause symptoms, says the health assessment body NICE in updated guidance. Its conclusion comes after a detailed analysis of data on links between HRT and conditions such as heart disease, stroke, some cancers and dementia.
Men’s life expectancy has dropped by half a year while women’s has fallen by three months since the Covid pandemic, new official figures show. Men in England and Wales will live to 79 years while women will reach 83 on average, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today revealed. That’s 26 weeks lower for men
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By Xantha Leatham Deputy Science Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 11:00 EDT, 7 October 2024 | Updated: 11:21 EDT, 7 October 2024 We’d probably all love to live to the age of 100. But the chances of doing so are still very slim as increases in life expectancy are slowing down, experts say. Researchers
It was the year COVID-19 vaccines became widely available, and the pandemic’s startling death toll in California and elsewhere appeared close to being reined in. Instead, life expectancy in California fell by more than 8 months in 2021, dropping the Golden State to 10th place in the nation, according to a new report from the
By Xantha Leatham Deputy Science Editor Published: 19:14 EDT, 18 August 2024 | Updated: 19:20 EDT, 18 August 2024 Regularly eating small fish whole – such as whitebait – can prolong life expectancy in women, experts have discovered. A research team from Nagoya University in Japan analysed data on 80,000 people aged between 35 and