expectancy
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As Jill explains in an early chapter, doctors don’t typically recommend prostate-specific antigen screenings for men over 70, given that cancer spreads slowly at that age and isn’t thought to affect life expectancy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Average male life expectancy in Russia today is about 68 years, according to official statistics, compared with roughly 76 in the U.S. and over 80 across much of Western Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Dr. Hirota has published 56 papers, and his work connects molecular biology with nutrition in pursuit of better health care solutions and longer healthy life expectancy.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
Those schemes became expensive for employers to sustain as life expectancy improved, and they all but died out in the private sector in the 2000s.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
And once more there was silence; and the expectancy, momentarily relaxed, was stretched again, tauter, tauter, almost to the tearing point.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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