Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency ...

How do we align wealthspans with healthspans and lifespans? The insurance sector has a plan. We need to innovate - and ...

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a global standard for classifying diseases, deaths and health conditions and has been used for more than a century. It assigns diagnostic codes to ...

Life expectancy in western countries, once on a steady upward trajectory, has hit a worrying slowdown with obesity, poor diet and physical inactivity taking a heavy toll.

A study looked at if your ZIP code more important than your genetic code when it comes to having a long, healthy life.

A new study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a range of environmental factors, including lifestyle (smoking and physical activity), and living conditions, have a greater ...

Early adult death rates spiked during COVID-19 and stayed high in 2023, driven by drug deaths and other health crises.

People who are listed as over 100 years old in the Social Security system are "not necessarily receiving benefits," the new head of the agency said Wednesday, contradicting claims that tens of ...

The coming-of-age story is a timeless genre -- often poignant, usually powerful, and sometimes funny -- and movies with this theme can be a great way to expose kids to important life lessons. These ...

my research challenges the assumption that the U-shaped happiness curve is universal. The trend showing that average well-being improves after middle age might be more typical of urban ...

Cox proportional hazard models tested the association between alcohol consumption and transaminitis univariately, then age and gender adjusted ... below 14 units of alcohol per week, the probability ...