Sleep has long been associated with overall health and wellbeing. Recent findings, however, suggest that sleep is more ...

Genes and chance are a big part of living to 100, but lifestyle factors can play a role.freemixer/Getty Images There's a lot that a healthy lifestyle can do for your longevity. But in old age, a big ...

Sleep isn’t just about feeling rested—it may be one of the strongest predictors of how long you live. Researchers analyzing ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. Over the past 150 years, humanity has unleashed unimaginable energy by splitting ...

Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. were among the areas with the highest life expectancy rates in the U.S. Researchers collected data using life expectancy patterns based on birth groups from ...

New research has pinpointed the exact amount of sleep that may potentially shave "years off your life". Consistently getting ...

Walking for a certain number of minutes at a brisk pace may extend your lifespan, according to one study. Scientists estimate ...

This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we mine public databases to tell quick stories about the world around us. Life expectancy in Kansas declined in ...

There's no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a peculiar ability to postpone the inevitable. A thorough health evaluation of one ...