People around the world are living longer than ever before but spending more of those additional years in poor health, according to a new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in The Lancet ...

PORTLAND, USA, Aug 10 2026 (IPS) - Upon reaching the age of 80, men and women are living longer than ever before. These gains in longevity among octogenarians represent a remarkable demographic ...

In 2023, the PLOS Global Public Health journal published a global study that found that women and men are both more likely to live longer in countries with greater gender equality. According to a ...

FOR decades, longer life expectancy has been celebrated as one of humanity’s greatest achievements. But a new global study has found that millions of people are surviving longer only to spend more ...

Good news! People around the world are living longer. The bad news is we’re spending a lot of that extra time in physical agony. Guess we haven’t quite figured out that part yet. According to a ...

When people say they want to live longer, they often mean that they want to remain healthy while they are living longer. This ...

The morbidity gap—the number of years people live in poor health—widened in nearly all countries, with wealthier nations facing the largest gaps. The US has the largest morbidity gap, closely followed ...