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For 60 years, Medicare has served as a social safety net. Workers pay into the system over their lifetimes with the expectation that they will be able to access affordable health care when they turn 65. But for a growing ...
Nov 7, 2025
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For 60 years, Medicare has served as a social safety net. Workers pay into the system over their lifetimes with the expectation that they will be able to access affordable health care when they turn 65. But for a growing ...
Nov 7, 2025
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A new University of Hawaiʻi study reveals a striking 19-year difference in life expectancy among Hawaiʻi's major ethnic groups. The updated analysis, published in the Hawaiʻi Journal of Health and Social Welfare, shows that ...
Oct 24, 2025
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For many years, the Indian Health Service (IHS) has been underfunded, leading to health and life expectancy disparities among Indigenous people, according to University of Oklahoma researchers. In an article in Health Affairs, ...
Oct 16, 2025
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The question of how far life expectancy will rise in the future is a highly controversial topic among scientists. From today's perspective, life expectancy rose at an almost dizzying rate at the beginning of the 20th century. ...
Aug 26, 2025
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As 100-year lives become increasingly common, Stanford psychologist Laura Carstensen is working to understand the implications—and to ensure we can make the most of our extra years. The following are the researchers' own ...
Aug 14, 2025
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Planetary health and human health are closely interconnected. What harms the environment, whether in the short or long term, also affects human health. With this planetary health approach, a pioneering study in Spain has ...
Aug 11, 2025
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Living within miles of the ocean breeze may be linked to a longer life, but you shouldn't count on the same benefits if you live in a riverside city, suggests a recent study.
Jul 28, 2025
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Thanks to vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 in the period 2020–2024, 2.533 million deaths were prevented at the global level; one death was avoided for every 5,400 doses of vaccine administered.
Jul 25, 2025
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Even four years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, California residents aren't living as long as they used to.
Jul 10, 2025
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