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Autism treatments are among fastest-growing US health-care bills

A new study by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation covers more than three-quarters of nationwide health spending last decade. Among the health conditions where more than $5 billion was spent overall, they found that autism had the fastest annual pace of growth, at 13%.

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A wealthy and unhappy nation

[A report measuring the state of public trust and discourse] finds that the U.S. economy is performing better than any of its peers and pulling away from the economies of Europe and Japan.

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The growing inequality in life expectancy among Americans

Called "Ten Americas," the analysis published late last year in The Lancet found that "one's life expectancy varies dramatically depending on where one lives, the economic conditions in that location, and one's racial and ethnic identity."

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1 million U.S. adults will develop dementia each year by 2060, study says

Theo Vos, an epidemiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Washington who was not involved in the study, said that dementia is a difficult condition to consistently measure, in part because norms around listing it as the cause of death have varied by country and changed over time.

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Three-quarters of US adults are now overweight or obese

Dr. Ng [Marie Ng, an affiliate associate professor at IHME] and her co-authors wrote that existing policies have failed to do enough to address the crisis, adding that “major reform” was needed to prevent it from worsening.

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How ‘miracle’ weight-loss drugs will change the world

Such policy-based behavioral interventions usually have little effect on preventing weight gain or causing weight loss in the real world, at least in the short term. But the GLP-1 drugs could be different, says Theo Vos, an epidemiologist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Mental health of adolescents

Globally, it is estimated that one in seven (14%) of 10–19-year-olds experience mental health conditions [according to GBD data], yet these remain largely unrecognized and untreated.