U.S. life expectancy jumped last year, and preliminary data suggests there may be another — much smaller — improvement this year. Death rates fell last year for almost all leading causes ...

Researchers examining southern right whales found that the median life span for the species was 73.4 years, and that 10 percent of individuals survived past 131.8 years. The report has combined ...

Guide Dogs is training more dogs to help the 2 million people in the UK living with sight loss. The charity needs more volunteers to help raise these life-changing guide dogs. For more information ...

Either way, it’s hard to watch Kodi, the ragged, hungry-eyed canine star of “Dog on Trial,” without sensing, whether by sheer good fortune or some mysterious process of empathy, a genuine ...

A Cleveland Clinic liver specialist discusses the life expectancy with fatty liver disease and provides tips to take charge of your health. According to the American Liver Foundation, a nonprofit ...

Photo: Jimin Kim/Dave Decker/Zuma Press Some good news as 2024 nears the end: Life expectancy in the U.S. last year made an unusually sharp increase as deaths from most major causes declined ...

Last year, life expectancy at birth was 78.4 years for the total U.S. population, an increase from 77.5 in 2022, the CDC report said. For men, life expectancy increased by a year from 74.8 in 2022 ...

A man bravely risked his life to save his dog from a bear attack, using a wooden log to fend off the wild animal in a viral video. In a heart-stopping video that has gone viral on social media ...

It will be a poor trade off if their life expectancy increases but those added years are full of suffering due to poor health. The 20th century saw a marked rise in human life expectancy globally ...

A CDC report showed a decline in death rates in 2023 for almost all of the leading causes, meaning life expectancy was 78.5 years last year overall. It's higher for women than men. U.S. life ...

having been named the country’s hip hop artist of the year the month before. Another award-winning Swedish rapper, Einar, was shot and killed in Stockholm in a gang conflict in October 2021.

Veterinarians draw blood from a dog during a blood-donation day in Dordrecht ... Once considered rare and ad hoc, transfusions have become a life-saving tool in modern veterinary medicine.