Pharmaceuticals have added about a year to U.S. life expectancy since 1990, according to new research published in Health Affairs by scholars from Harvard and the University of Michigan.
Yet Americans don't live as long as their counterparts in Canada and the United Kingdom. British life expectancy is over 81 years; for Canadians, it's 82 years. U.S. life expectancy is just 78.6 years.
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