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~ The rich world has got used to health and longevity getting better, and death rates falling for everyone. But over the past few years, data has been accumulating which suggests that this trend has stopped for poorly-educated, white Americans.
And for one group in particular - middle-aged women - death rates are going up. Link ~
The headline is not mine: a worrying trend for America to come to terms with. The trend was first discovered in 2008 and has not stopped - what does America need to do to deal with this?