Study Finds Wide Life Expectancy Disparity
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New research has found enough differences in health and lifespan between various groups to create 'eight Americas'
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Researchers may have found a side effect associated with stress which could lead to premature aging. Although the findings by researchers from the University of California at San Francisco are somewhat technically
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Living to 100 is easier than you might think. Surprising new research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark.
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Average life expectancy in China will jump 13 years to 85 years and all households will be lifted out of poverty by the middle of the century, Chinese academics forecast in a report issued in state media on Monday.
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New research suggests that if you are an optimist you are more likely to live longer than someone who is a pessimist, someone who sees the glass half empty.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- There's no racial distinction when it comes to depression in the homebound elderly, says a new study in the October issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
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Among men with symptoms of  heart disease, those who are obese tend to live longer than  their normal-weight counterparts, a new study suggests.
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BOSTON---Although black men in the United States are more likely than white men to be diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and have a two-fold greater risk of dying from it, they are significantly less likely to be screened for prostate cancer
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NEW YORK  - Children whose parents enjoyed a long life, living well into their 80s, seem to have healthier hearts in middle age compared with children whose parents did not live this long. Moreover, the heart advantage persists over time, which should help them follow in their parents' footsteps.
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NEW YORK  - Among men with symptoms of heart disease, those who are obese tend to live longer than their normal-weight counterparts, a new study suggests.
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A report scheduled to be released Monday found that people who live in areas with a high degree of sprawl are more likely to report chronic health problems such as high blood pressure, arthritis, headaches and breathing difficulties compared to residents
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People with at least some education beyond high school have a lower cancer death risk than those with less education, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday
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NEW YORK  - People living along the southern Atlantic coast of the US, as well as those residing along the Mississippi River, die at a faster rate than the national average, while death rates are below the norm in the upper Great Plains, a new study shows.
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Uninsured cancer patients are nearly twice as likely to die within five years as those with private coverage, according to the first national study of its kind and one that sheds light on troubling health care obstacles.
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WASHINGTON -- Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries.
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In a study of prostate cancer  patients living in California, most Asian men with the disease  survived longer than their white counterparts. The exception  was men from South Asia; their survival was worse than that of  white men.
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Two large studies -- one on men and the other on women -- reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that elderly people who walked were more likely to maintain cognitive function.