(Aging Untold) — The most challenging chapter of a 40-year marriage started on Valentine’s Day in 2014. That is the day Dee and Tim Evans received Tim’s diagnosis of ALS. “Til death do us part,” Dee ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a terminal disease that attacks the neurons in the brain and spinal cord, causing muscle control to degenerate over time. Approximately 30,000 people are living ...

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Mississippi continues to have one of the lowest life expectancies in the nation, raising questions about why residents here die years earlier than the U.S. average. According to the Centers for ...

Feeling proud of your choice to live in San Diego County? You should – it might mean you live a little longer. County residents are living to the age of 81.5 years, according to data released Thursday ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disorder whose hallmark symptom is inflammation in the joints resulting in swelling, pain, and stiffness. But RA, particularly if left untreated or ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — How much access to opportunity Washtenaw County residents have varies depending on where they live, a new county index and map shows. The county Office of Community and Economic ...

Massachusetts residents are living longer lives than nearly the rest of the country, but in Boston you’ll find the life expectancy for Black residents is lagging far behind the rest of the city. The ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Settegast neighborhood in northeast Houston has been home to Carolyn Rivera for more than four decades. Rivera said that it is a place she chose to stay for the long term ...

The Globe’s recent article about the Boston Public Health Commission’s report on widening life-expectancy gaps should not come as a surprise (“Boston moves to close life expectancy gap,” Metro, March ...