Life expectancy increases in Britain beginning to stall - report

Life expectancy in Britain has all but stopped rising after more than 100 years of advances, a leading professor of public health said on Tuesday.Until 2010, life expectancy at birth was rising by one year every five years for women, and by one year every three and a half years for men.Its author, Michael Marmot, professor of public health at University College London, said the findings were historically unusual, and worrying.