Life Expectancy

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The Breakthrough Problem, or Why the Drugs Don’t Work Like They Used To

Michael Bhaskar 13/09/2022

Achieving a pharmaceutical breakthrough is on a trend of...

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Air Pollution May Cut 9 Years of Life Expectancy of 40% Of Indians

Reuters 01/09/2021

More than 480 million people living in the vast...

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Are Conservative Policies Bad for Health?

Lola Butcher 16/02/2021

Researchers are finding reason to believe countries that implement...

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John Henryism – the Theory That Helps Explain Racial Health Disparities

Joseph Singer, Nadia Sussman, Nina Martin and Akilah Johnson, ProPublica 28/12/2020

The constant stress of striving to succeed in the...

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The Hidden Paradoxes in India’s Latest Life Expectancy Figures

Phalasha Nagpal 14/08/2020

Intuitively, as a person ages, their life expectancy also...

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Air Pollution Is Reducing Indians’ Life Span By 1.5 Years: Study

This is the first time data on air pollution...

On November 16, an article in the British Medical Journal Open concluded that severe public spending cuts in the UK were associated with 120,000 deaths between 2010 and 2017. Credit: Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier/ Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

Life Expectancy in Britain Has Fallen So Much That a Million Years of Life Could Disappear by 2058

Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten 04/12/2017

In their projections, published in October 2017, statisticians estimated...