Life Expectancy Drops For White Women, Increases For Black Men – NPR

Read article - Ellen Meara, professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is quoted about a report recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, that found that white women are dying at a slightly younger age than they used to, and that the average life expectancy for non-Hispanic black men increased by about a half year. "There are people for whom life expectancy is falling—and that's happening at a time where everywhere else and for every other group we're seeing all these amazing gains in survival," Meara says.