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Life Expectancy Worsening or Stagnating Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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A new, long-term study of mortality trends in U.S. counties over the same four decades reports a troubling finding: These gains are not reaching many parts of the country; rather, the life expectancy of a significant segment of the population is actually declining or at best stagnating. The research was conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of Washington. (source: hsph.harvard.edu)
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