Health informatics
US life expectancy rose last year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level
U.S. life expectancy rose last year—by more than a year—but still isn't close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nov 29, 2023
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News tagged with life expectancies
Medical research
Study identifies a key protein for healthy aging
Life expectancy and healthy aging in mice can be determined by a protein present in some cells of the immune system, according to a study published in the journal Cell Reports. When this protein—known as the CD300f immune ...
Nov 28, 2023
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Health
Study suggests changing to a healthier diet could add ten years to your life
An international team of public health specialists, addiction researchers, cardiovascular and metabolic health professionals and nutritionists has found that switching from a typical Western diet to a healthier regimen could ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Premature death of autistic people in the UK investigated for the first time
A new study led by University College London researchers confirms that autistic people experience a reduced life expectancy; however, the number of years of life lost may not be as high as previously claimed.
Nov 24, 2023
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Neuroscience
Neuroscientists engineer a protein that enhances memory to respond to anti-aging drug
Neuroscientists at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Catholic University, Rome, and the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS have genetically modified a molecule, the protein LIMK1, which is ...
Nov 15, 2023
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US men are dying much earlier than women, as death 'gender gap' widens: Study
The gap in life expectancy between American men and women is now the biggest it has been since the mid-1990s—almost six years.
Nov 13, 2023
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Health informatics
Accurately calculating life expectancy since COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic caused over one million deaths in the United States from 2021 to 2023. According to the Human Mortality Database, the world's leading scientific data resource on mortality in more developed countries, ...
Nov 8, 2023
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Medications
New drug combination doubles survival for people with bladder cancer: Clinical trial
Results from a clinical trial carried out by researchers at Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London show that a new combination of drugs doubles overall survival for patients with bladder cancer that has ...
Nov 8, 2023
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Medical economics
Black and white adults have similar health care expenditure levels in racially and economically integrated communities
Differences in health care expenditures between Black and white adults vary substantially with the local level of racial and economic integration, and tend to be low or nonexistent in highly integrated communities, according ...
Nov 3, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Proving the efficacy of local treatment in liver cancer oligometastases
Professor Chai Hong Rim of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Korea University's Ansan Hospital, along with student Jungsue Lee and Sooyeon Kim of the College of Medicine, Korea University, proved the efficacy of active ...
Nov 2, 2023
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