UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Despite being home to some of the world’s most dangerous animals, Australia has led the English-speaking world in life expectancy for the last three decades. As for other ...

(CNN) — Life expectancy fell across the majority of high-income countries, signaling a collective and simultaneous decline among affluent nations for the first time in decades, a new study finds.

An analysis of international longevity data published in the open-access journal BMJ Open finds that Australians outlive their peers in 5 high-income English-speaking countries, including the UK and ...

I’ve heard so many versions of this claim over the years, including recently from a prominent menopause influencer (implying that menopause is not “natural” because no one lived long enough to go ...

The low take-up of annuities has been a feature of the market for decades, and while various theories have been put forward ...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) built the tool and said it provides a new way of comparing Australia’s performance across a range of health-related measures from the data of 36 ...

A person's age is one of the best predictors of how much longer they are likely to live. This is the main idea behind life expectancy. Life expectancy is a statistical measure of how long a person is ...