Retirement is lasting longer for many Americans, but confidence in their financial readiness isn’t keeping pace.

Americans over 60 are having financial trouble meeting their basic needs. For the lowest earners, that can spell an earlier death, a new report found.

Retirement planning today is primarily focused on financial instruments such as pension funds, savings schemes, or annuity ...

Niraparib is a “maintenance” drug approved to keep certain types of cancer from coming back, including ovarian cancer, ...

Life expectancy has slowed since the 1930s. No generation is projected to reach 100 years on average. A recent study ...

Sarah Dalton is executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, a union which represents 6300 senior ...

In the US, men on average die 5.8 years earlier than women. A new study offers evolutionary insights into the death gap ...

Topeka Zoo Asian elephant Cora, who appeared in a 1980 movie that was part of the popular "Smokey and the Bandit" series, ...

Money can't buy happiness or love – but it may buy more years of life, a new national report suggests. Older adults in the poorest 20% of the U.S. population die, on average, nine years earlier than ...

A report spotted a nine-year life gap where American seniors from low-income families die earlier. Find out how poverty affects lifespan.

Maren Denison, third-year student at the University of Iowa, was in sixth grade when she found out her lung function had ...

The “striking” findings showed an overall upward trend in life expectancy when patients took niraparib - a targeted therapy that blocks cancer cells from repairing their DNA when damaged - alongside ...