Treatment for HIV has improved tremendously over the past 30 years; once a death sentence, the disease is now a manageable lifelong condition in many parts of the world. Life expectancy is about the same as that of individuals ...
Feb 4, 2021
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Increases in life expectancy in the UK and elsewhere had slowed even before 2016—and COVID-19 is expected to further eliminate any gains, Newcastle University studies show.
Feb 1, 2021
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A nationwide panel of experts has developed the first mammography guidelines for older survivors of breast cancer, providing a framework for discussions between survivors and their physicians on the pros and cons of screening ...
Jan 28, 2021
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While more people may be living longer than ever before, this increase in life expectancy is accompanied by the development of age-related diseases—such as cancer or type 2 diabetes. This is why the a major new parliamentary ...
Jan 28, 2021
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An estimated 62,750 excess deaths resulted in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales, according to demographic experts at Oxford's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science—who reveal life expectancy was ...
Jan 27, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted stark inequalities in healthy life expectancy, according to a report into healthy aging published today.
Jan 15, 2021
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Rates of mortality from COVID-19 are lower in areas where public health measures aimed at preventing the spread of the disease were implemented earlier in the outbreak, according to a study from University of Hawaiʻi at ...
Jan 15, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic, which claimed more than 336,000 lives in the United States in 2020, has significantly affected life expectancy, USC and Princeton researchers have found.
Jan 14, 2021
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Non-violent offenders serving time for drug use or possession should be freed immediately and their convictions erased, according to research published in the peer-reviewed The American Journal of Bioethics.
Jan 8, 2021
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Why do we do things that are bad for us—or not do things that are good for us—even in light of overwhelming evidence?
Dec 30, 2020
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