A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...

Some say new research has "important consequences for ageing research", while others believe the study's findings are "not ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

Although some genes linked to life span have been identified, external environmental forces, such as disease or living ...

Life expectancy in the United States has been rising over many decades, ushering in what experts describe as "an era of unprecedented longevity." This trend raises important questions about how people ...

A new research paper focuses on why so many people in Brazil live extremely long lives, although there doesn't seem to be a ...

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Doctors share what you shouldn't be doing if you want to live a long and healthy life.

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On average, higher-income people live longer. Can you buy more time if you're not in the top 20%?