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Cosmological redshift comes from general relativity, not the SR Doppler effect. Local motion does produce a shift on top of that, but that's not all redshift. Nearby galaxies are actually blue shifted.

I wouldn't say "almost entirely." A couple more minutes of Googling brought up this:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db88.pdf

which says that yes, the greatest reductions in death rates were for infants and children, but for every group under 85, mortality dropped by at least 50% from 1935 to 2010.

Also there are some tables at

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Tbl_6.html

which seem to say that those who are 18 today expect about 15 more years than they would have in 1900.

Not to mention nutrition, hygiene, and antibiotics are probably reasonably important in reducing infant mortality. I do agree that for an article specifically about aging they might have been more careful about those numbers, though.