Women’s life expectancy rebounds, men still lag after covid
Independent - 11-Dec-2025Girls born in 2022–24 can expect to live 83 years, while boys’ life expectancy remains lower
Equality in Longevity
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Scotland launches landmark trial of free weight-loss jabs
BBC - 01-Nov-20255,000 deprived Scots to trial new obesity drugs in Glasgow
UK sees record rise in elderly population as male longevity increases
Independent - 21-Oct-2025Men aged 90+ in the UK have more than doubled since 2004, boosting the total elderly population
Growing apart while growing old: How education shapes biological ageing
Live Forever Club - 17-Sep-2025Those with more education often live healthier and longer lives
Women in poor UK areas live shorter, less healthy lives
Independent - 04-Jul-2025Future health care could improve these numbers, but big differences remain
Equality in Longevity Resources
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Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It
Book about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as a manual for how women can get the right care for their bodies written by Alyson McGregor
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Independent body that examines and reports on ethical issues in biology and medicine
Institute of Health Equity (IHE)
Established by UCL to develop and support approaches to health equity
Equality in Longevity Blog Posts
19-Apr-2018
Inequality and Threat
A look at the risk of inequality between rich and poor being polarised to extreme
