On Breast Cancer and the chose of life over longevity, Maggie Mahar; The Healthbeat Blog Life Over Longevity HealthBeat readers may remember the two-part post that I wrote about Amy…

…its former peak, and Iraq, which has moved back up itss former peak again. Aa a broader perspective on all this I close by noting that a substantial portion of…

…gain declines to only 1/2 of its maximum in the last 12 months. the YoY peak in the Case Shiller index was +20.6% in March and April. The peak for…

…continue to decline, it won’t continue to decline at the rate it did for the first few years. In fact, if the life expectancy of retirees is about 12 years……

…fast, that was easy, that worked out just fine, just the way we hoped it would. “Lowest US Life Expectancy Since 1996 Linked to COVID-19,” JAMA Network, Bridget Kuehn. Life…

…efforts, it’s a tough fight. Americans don’t need to look overseas to see the real-world results of this kind of thing.  Average life expectancy in the US has been falling for…

…it. Life expectancy at birth was 18 years in the early Bronze Age, 22 in the Roman empire, and 36 in Massachusetts in 1776. It’s 77.5 years in the U.S….

…problem is, is that times have changed since 1935. Then, most women did not work outside the house, and the average life expectancy was about 60 years old — which…

…expectancy of a newborn” born in 1874. OK, Glassman’s life expectancy concept is the wrong one, but the life expectancy of those who retired at age 65 in 1935 was…

…evolution since 1980: its lagging life expectancy. In 1979-81 life expectancy in Texas and New York were almost identical. But since then, a wide gap has emerged. New York state…