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Byline: Rachel Roubein A bipartisan group of senators grilled Food and Drug Administration officials Thursday on the agency having not more tightly regulated ultra-processed foods and food dyes, highlighting a [...]

Byline: Rachel Roubein A bipartisan group of senators grilled Food and Drug Administration officials Thursday on the agency's failure to more tightly regulate ultra-processed foods and food dyes, highlighting a [...]

Byline: Dan Diamond The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration had an urgent message last winter for his colleagues, brandishing data that life expectancy in the United States had [...]

Byline: Joel Achenbach, Dan Keating, Laurie McGinley, Akilah Johnson and Jahi Chikwendiu The United States is failing at a fundamental mission - keeping people alive. After decades of progress, life [...]

Byline: Anahad O'Connor There's no way to guarantee that you'll live to be 100. But we can learn a lot from studying the eating habits of the world's centenarians. Researchers [...]

Byline: Lenny Bernstein U.S. life expectancy continued its steady, alarming decline in 2021, as covid-19 and illegal drugs took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, according to final [...]

Byline: Joel Achenbach and Dan Keating Life expectancy in the United States, which declined dramatically in 2020 as the coronavirus slammed into the country, continued to go down in 2021, [...]

Byline: Lenny Bernstein Life expectancy at birth fell to 77 years in 2020, a continued slide in a reliable gauge of Americans' health as the coronavirus pandemic surged through the [...]

Byline: Allyson Chiu, Lindsey Bever and Ariana Eunjung Cha Life expectancy in the United States dropped by a year and a half in 2020 - a continuation of a worrisome [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino CHICAGO -Ben Jones huffs slowly down Cottage Grove Avenue on a summer Saturday on Chicago's South Side. He has asthma, and the summer heat isn't helping his [...]

Byline: Lenny Bernstein Life expectancy in the United States fell by a full year during the first half of 2020, a staggering decline that reflects the toll of the covid-19 [...]

Byline: John W. Rowe For Print Use Only. How old is too old to be president of the United States? As we watch several men in their mid-70s compete for [...]

Byline: Matt Viser and Lenny Bernstein LAS VEGAS -In the run-up to the 1976 presidential campaign, Sen. Frank Church of Idaho revealed that cancer had claimed his left testicle. Jimmy [...]

This appeared in Saturday's Washington Post.- - -Life expectancy statistics are a significant barometer of a society's health. They're an indicator - a signal - of how the population is [...]

Byline: Amanda Erickson For the second year in a row, life expectancy in the United States has dropped. It is not hard to understand why: In 2016, there was a [...]

Byline: Joel Achenbach Since 1999, African Americans have shown significant improvements in life expectancy and are now less likely to die at an early age. Both changes have helped to [...]

Byline: Lenny Bernstein For the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy for Americans declined last year - a troubling development linked to a panoply of worsening health [...]

Byline: Lia Kvatum The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health turns 100 this year. The school came to life during a time when women frequently died during childbirth and [...]

Byline: Christopher Ingraham It's easy to forget among the daily din of headline-grabbing tragedies, but historically speaking, we live in a time of unprecedented health, peace and prosperity. Global life [...]

Byline: Rodney Brooks I've written quite a lot about the fact that today people can live just as long, or longer, in retirement, as they do in their working lives. [...]

Byline: Emily Badger THIS STORY IS EMBARGOED FOR 12:01 a.m. EST April 11. SAN FRANCISCO -- This city is full of parks that invite exercise, and bike lanes that make [...]

Byline: Amanda Erickson For the second year in a row, life expectancy in the United States has dropped. It is not hard to understand why: In 2016, there was a [...]

It isn't often that economics raises the most profound questions of human existence, but the recent work of economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton (wife and husband, both of Princeton [...]

Byline: Joel Achenbach;Dan Keating Sickness and early death in the white working class could be rooted in poor job prospects for less-educated young people as they first enter the labor [...]

Byline: Christopher Ingraham Is the money we're spending on health care keeping us alive? On a certain level, that's the big test of any health-care system -- and the United [...]

Byline: Chelsea Harvey A new paper has added to the growing body of research indicating that India's air pollution has become a matter of life and death. The study , [...]

Byline: Philip Bump Now that it is an election year, it is time to play perhaps the most macabre game in Washington politics: When will the Supreme Court retire? And [...]

Byline: Laura Hambleton New research and better and more aggressive treatment have begun to change sickle cell disease from an inherited condition that often condemned children to painful and short [...]