life expectancy, Tag

Bottom Line: In the United States, infant and child mortality have decreased and people, in general, are living longer lives. The upper limit of life span has not moved as much but has steadily gone up over the last century.

Right now there are 7.5 billion people on Earth - and counting. But the world in 2050 will be even more packed, according to new United Nations (UN) projections. This week they released the World Population Prospects: 2017...

We've all been taught that waiting to have kids later in life increases the chance of complications. For this reason, many women assume that the right time to get pregnant is in their twenties. But new research conducted...

Photo via Shutterstock According to numbers recently released by the UN, the world's population is expected reach nearly 11 billion people by 2100. That's about 8 percent more than was predicted in 2011. While population...

From the Harvard School of Public Health  some good news. Unlike the claim thatb Co2 is a pollutant, real air pollution problems and real related health issues continue to improve. Declining air pollution levels continue...

“U.S. Death Rate Falls for 10th Straight Year,” the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced in a recent press release.  The release goes on to note that the “age-adjusted death rate for the U.S....