New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...

A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.

Although some genes linked to life span have been identified, external environmental forces, such as disease or living ...

There are a few hotspots on Earth that are linked to longer-than-average human lifespans. From the sun-soaked island of Okinawa in Japan to the rugged mountains of Ogliastra in Sardinia and the ...

A person's age is one of the best predictors of how much longer they are likely to live. This is the main idea behind life expectancy. Life expectancy is a statistical measure of how long a person is ...

Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. were among the areas with the highest life expectancy rates in the U.S. Researchers collected data using life expectancy patterns based on birth groups from ...

When you examine individual census tracts in New Hanover County, there’s a significant difference in life expectancy.