The Conservatives announced today that they would bring forward a proposed rise in the State Pension Age for men. Thank goodness for that. When life expectancy is rising - as it has been for years - there are only two choices you have if you want to avoid...
Danish researchers have reported that projecting past life expectancy forward suggests that half of the babies being born now can expect to live to 100. Perhaps. Making projections over that sort of timescale are very difficult, and it is dangerous to give...
Research published today in the British Medical Journal shows that people living in deprived areas are as susceptible to higher mortality rates today as they were a century ago. It also points out the changes in the causes of this mortality. In the early...
The recent news linking prostate cancer to a virus, XMLV, supports the hope that cancer vaccines will be able to significantly reduce future mortality from the disease. This is crucial if the recent increases in life expectancy are to continue. Since the...
