In a stunning reversal of decades of progress, global life expectancy at birth fell 1.6 years from 2019 to 2021, with 16 million of 131 million total deaths in 2020 and 2021 directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19.
Taurine - a nutrient found in meat, fish and sold as a supplement - extends life and boosts health in a range of animal species, scientists say.
This might represent a fundamental breakthrough in our quest to slow the inevitable march of time.
The world got better last year, and it is going to get even better this year. If we can solve global poverty, we can solve other problems like climate change.
A research team has discovered a combination of drugs that increases healthy lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans. Life-extending effects in worms could one day translate into treatments that delay ageing in humans.
People who are overweight cut their life expectancy by two months for every extra kilogram of weight they carry, research suggests. A major study has also found that education leads to a longer life, with almost a year added for each year spent studying beyond school.
People in Japan continue to outlive those in other countries, marking the world’s longest average life expectancy of 83.7 years, according to the latest WHO report.
Supercomputers look set to improve medical practice to such a degree that our life expectancy could go up between five and 10 years.
Average life expectancy is set to increase in many countries by 2030 - and will exceed 90 years in South Korea, according to new research.
In unprecedented detail, lifespan gap shown to be large and growing rapidly.
Older people who help and support others live longer, a new study has concluded. The results of these findings show that this kind of caregiving can have a positive effect on the mortality of the carers.
We truly are living in the most exciting time to be alive. The truth is, driven by advances in exponential technologies, things are getting much better around the world at an accelerating rate.
How long your parents lived does not necessarily affect how long you will live. Instead it is how you live your life that determines how old you will get, reveals research from Sweden.
