life expectancy

Why further increasing average life expectancy for humans will be difficult

October 11, 2024 11:59 am

During the 20th century, life expectancy soared dramatically primarily due to innovations in public health and medicine — between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. But there are limitations in going beyond these advancements.

Don't expect human life expectancy to grow much more: Researchers

October 09, 2024 2:04 am

Life expectancy is an estimate of the average number of years a baby born in a given year might expect to live, assuming death rates at that time hold constant.

The other side of demographic dividend: Can we take care of our elderly?

July 31, 2024 10:15 am

As India becomes an ageing society, significant gaps in access to pensions, health services and social care for older persons need to be addressed

Venki Ramakrishnan at Idea Exchange: ‘Many things that cause ageing may have evolved as mechanisms to prevent cancer’’

July 22, 2024 8:34 am

CRISPR is simply the current prevailing form of gene therapy. It was not the first, and it’s not going to be the last either. People may discover other ways of doing gene therapy that are actually an advance over CRISPR.

First ever study compares Covid-19 with other life-threatening diseases; this is what it reveals

April 15, 2024 5:31 pm

A study published in The Lancet finds that global life expectancy has increased significantly since 1990, and addresses reduction of deaths from several life-threatening diseases across regions

African countries made huge gains in life expectancy. Now that could be erased.

March 14, 2023 5:36 pm

Success in fighting HIV, tuberculosis and other deadly infectious diseases, plus an expansion of essential services, have helped countries in sub-Saharan Africa achieve extraordinary gains in healthy life expectancy over the past two decades.

While life expectancy is rebounding in parts of the world, white deaths drive a further US drop

April 10, 2022 10:34 am

In 2020, that expectation dropped sharply in the United States, as it did across many nations rocked by the pandemic. In 2021, as more people became vaccinated, many “peer nations” began to see life expectancies rebound, according to the new study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed.

Can making dietary changes help add more years to your life? Here's what a study says

February 14, 2022 3:00 pm

"It is always advisable to adopt healthy eating habits early on in life to prevent lifestyle diseases. Though healthy diet plays a major role in longevity, it should be coupled with good exercise, adequate sleep, and rest," Dr Abhishek Subhash said

Life expectancy in India down by 2.6 yrs due to air pollution: Study

June 12, 2019 10:01 am

While exposure to outdoor particulate matter (PM) accounted for a loss of nearly one year and six months in life expectancy, exposure to household air pollution accounted for a loss of nearly one year and two months, according to the CSE.

World getting older, address health needs of elders: Study

November 06, 2014 12:05 am

80 per cent of the elders will be living in low-income and middle-income countries, the study says.

Air pollution is reducing life expectancy by a year: News in Numbers

June 22, 2020 6:09 pm

Air pollution is reducing life expectancy by a year: News in Numbers

June 22, 2020 6:18 pm