From 30 to over 80 years: how medicine doubled human life expectancy

The article explores how medicine managed to double human life expectancy, going from approximately 30 years to over 80 years over the past few centuries. Although there are people who attribute longevity to luck and reject medical advances such as vaccines and treatments, history demonstrates that we have never lived as long as we do today, this achievement being a direct result of progress in the field of health and medical science.

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