expectancy

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Dr. Hirota has published 56 papers, and his work connects molecular biology with nutrition in pursuit of better health care solutions and longer healthy life expectancy.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Those schemes became expensive for employers to sustain as life expectancy improved, and they all but died out in the private sector in the 2000s.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Here’s the good news: After declining for years due to “deaths of despair” and COVID-19, life expectancy in the U.S. has risen to 79 years, its highest level ever.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

I was given three to four months life expectancy in mid-December.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Hence the greatly increased life expectancy brought by modern medicine may have contributed to the recently accelerating pace of invention.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond