Life Expectancy

U.S. Life Expectancy To Decline, CDC Blames Pharmaceutical Companies

January 1, 2018 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: January 1, 2018

Drug deaths for 2016 were tallied at 63,600, up from 52,000 in 2015. This year is likely to continue the trend. Fentanyl is being blamed. In other words, drug manufacturers, the companies supposedly in the business of saving lives, have… [read]

How Healthy is the United States Compared to Other Countries?

January 12, 2016 by Allene Edwards
Last updated on: January 17, 2016

It’s no secret that health in the United States ranks lower than that of many other industrialized nations but did you know it was this bad? Life Expectancy According to the World Fact Book (data compiled by the CIA) the… [read]