All news on the topic: Life expectancy

Medics at the Christie hospital in Manchester are running about 30 clinical trials - and are finding that two-thirds of blood cancer patients with no other treatment options left are responding to the drugs

A California-based couple faced a devastating cancer journey after being diagnosed just months apart this year while caring for their three children

Life expectancy is years lower in Scarborough than elsewhere in the UK with residents claiming poor mental health services are partly to blame

Stamatis Moraitis was told in 1976 he had between six and nine months to live after being diagnosed with lung cancer, but has lived another 45 years on his home in Greece

Without emergency surgery, 71-year-old Hilary could die within six months. But it's a complex operation that carries 40 percent chance of death - and surgeons will have to stop her heart to do it

A mum has been left stumped after 'snack police' took food away from her son because the snackers are banned at his nursery school - and other parents have been left baffled too

Struggling to do up buttons on shirts or trousers, as well as finding it difficult to undo jars or dropping things could be an early symptom of motor neurone disease

Katie Price's mum, Amy, has opened up about her ill health and admits she didn't think she would be alive to see her personal memoir released as she vows to set the record straight

Blackpool has been revealed as having the lowest life expectancy of anywhere in the UK for both men and women, according to official figures from the Office of National Statistics

Between March 2020 and February 2023, the number of people dying from all causes was 5% higher than in the years before the Covid crisis struck, with ONS figures showing176,083 more people died than normal in England and Wales

Rob O'Hara discovered he was dying after losing grip in his left hand just weeks before the birth of his son - now the 33-year-old is unable to walk or talk unassisted

Health Equity North’s first health status report adds further weight to the growing list of evidence laying bare the ingrained health divide across the country

New analysis by PensionBee has highlighted the “pre-state pension gap” which is the total amount someone would need if they stop working before they can claim their state pension

A common trick to help you get to sleep at night could be increasing your chance of an 'early death' by as much as 55%, according to a new research study

Kelly Boyle bought her cat Rascal in April 2014 and after seeing a vet, she discovered her pet had feline asthma. The condition is monitored using inhalers, just like in human cases

This devastating condition damages nerve cells within the brain, progressively impacting a person’s ability to walk, talk and think - here are the symptoms to watch out for

Kevin Sinfield has raised millions of pounds for research into motor neurone disease since his former Leeds Rhinos team-mate Rob Burrow was diagnosed with the condition in 2019

Symptoms of Huntington’s disease will gradually get worse for around 10 to 25 years until the patient dies. Here's everything you need to know about the the debilitating condition

University College London's Professor Sir Michael Marmot said the UK is 'on track to make child poverty worse' - and said the Government could spend more on children in their early year but refused to do so, blaming high taxes

British expat David Hunter claims he killed wife Janice at their Cyprus home at her request due to her incurable blood cancer - but a haematologist told his murder trial she may not have been terminal

Vincent Dransfield celebrated his 109th birthday with pizza and carrot cake, surrounded by his loved ones who paid tribute to his optimism and upbeat attitude during his long life

Helen McMurray, 66, was given just 18 months to live after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, having noticed she had a 'trigger finger' and struggled to grip things

The Brown family had been looking forward to the end of little Mabel's cancer treatment, but as that approached last summer, dad Richard was given an inoperable cancer diagnosis

Karen Long fears leaving home because of the debilitating condition that leaves her with little-to-no control over her body’s reflexes and says it started in 2013 when suffered a fall

The state pension age is due to rise to 68 from 2044, but reports earlier this year suggested ministers wanted to bring that forward - potentially as early as 2035