expectancy
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As Jill explains in an early chapter, doctors don’t typically recommend prostate-specific antigen screenings for men over 70, given that cancer spreads slowly at that age and isn’t thought to affect life expectancy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
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
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
“Go back to 1935 when life expectancy was 62 and say to people, ‘In 100 years, living to 80 is going to be normalized.’
From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026
At such times the more exuberant among them called out in an excited manner on our emergence round some corner of expectancy, “Here they come!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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