A new study found that the gap in life expectancy between American Indians and Alaska Natives and the national average was 2.9 times greater than official U.S. statistics.

Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the American ...

LOS ANGELES — Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal ...

This life expectancy gap nearly doubled during the study period, increasing from 4.1 years between 2008-2010 to 8 years between 2017-2019.

A recent study found major racial disparities in U.S. prescription drug use, with White patients using the most and Black ...

Gaps in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States as a whole have narrowed since the 1990s, but in some places, such as the District of Columbia, large disparities remain, a ...

“Live Long and Well,” a city-led campaign to confront long-standing disparities in health outcomes and lifespans in Boston ...

However, the overall life expectancy difference between these groups, 5.77 years, was nearly identical to the prepandemic gap of 5.63 years, suggesting that income-based health disparities persist ...

CALIFORNIA — US life expectancy plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and still hasn’t returned to normal levels. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association looked ...