The National Center for Health Statistics says that although there remains a difference of four years between the life spans of white Americans and black Americans, overall, life expectancy for black ...

Millions of African Americans moved from the South in the early 20th century to seek better job opportunities and higher wages, but a new study on the historic Great Migration shows that with improved ...

Life expectancy for Native Americans in the western U.S. dropped below 64 years. This is a KFF Health News story. The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped ...

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The current landscape of public health in the United States is marked by a far-reaching attack on foundational scientific principles and institutions, threatening decades of progress in combating ...

Southern men born in 2000 also tended to have a lower life expectancy, but showed more improvement than women since 1900 in ...

The state’s life expectancy was lower in 2024 than in 2019, according to an analysis, but primarily as a result of causes of death other than Covid. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn If the nation’s largest ...