Newsweek has created a map that highlights a sobering reality for parts of the United States: in dozens of U.S. counties, average life expectancy is now lower than that of North Korea.

Southern men born in 2000 also tended to have a lower life expectancy, but showed more improvement than women since 1900 in these southern states: Southern states that showed a greater life expectancy ...

Life expectancy in any given country says a lot about how its society values, supports and nurtures its people.

up 72.6 from 63.7 Southern states that showed a greater life expectancy for both men and women were Florida, Texas and Virginia. The authors of the study attributed the country’s overall ...

The prospect of immortality may not be off the table for us humans, as life expectancies across the world continue to rise ...