a new paper suggests that a similar explosion in life expectancy won't occur in the 21st century. The report, published Monday (Oct. 7) in the journal Nature Aging, predicts that people can only ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an increase in life expectancy was driven mainly ... By the latter half of the twentieth century, there was little room for further reduction ...

Thus, the dramatic declines in infant and child mortality in the twentieth century were accompanied by equally stunning increases in life expectancy. For white women, life expectancy at birth rose ...

Thanks largely to improvements in medicine and public health measures, the average life expectancy is no longer capped below 50. Now, as we make our way through the 21st Century, the question is no ...