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Nearly one in five women (18.9 per cent) and one in seven men (14.8 per cent) globally experienced sexual violence before the age of 18 years.

Analysis published in The Lancet finds that more than half of all people who have experienced sexual violence did so before the age of 18.

The initiative is part of a larger effort by Microsoft to support impactful work being done in the Seattle area and Washington as a way of giving back to the place where it has been based for most of its history.

Medical spending is surging nationwide, with demand and other factors pushing it to a projected $7.7 trillion by 2032 — but actual spending varies from county to county.

New Jersey residents spent more than 42 other states on health care in America, with type 2 diabetes, hip, knee and back injuries, and dental care the conditions the most responsible for driving up costs, a first-ever national study on medical bills found.

“The high level of pediatric burden estimated in this study is a major cause for concern,” said the study authors.

Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless governments take action, says a new study.

Rates of obesity and overweight are spiralling due to a “monumental societal failure” to tackle the problem, with more than half of adults and almost a third of children and young people set to be affected by 2050, according to a new study.

The staggering rise in global obesity among young people has raised alarms with rates for those aged 5 to 24 tripling between 1990 and 2021—a 244 percent increase to 174 million.

Global failures in the response to the growing obesity crisis over the past three decades have led to a staggering increase in the numbers affected, according to the analysis published in The Lancet.

Without drastic intervention, 3.80 billion adults over the age of 25 years will have overweight and obesity around the world by 2050 compared to 2.11 billion in 2021.

Researchers warn that obesity levels are predicted to accelerate rapidly during the remainder of this decade, particularly in lower-income countries.

Ambulatory care is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the health care industry. It is also the most expensive, according to a new set of studies published in JAMA and JAMA Health Forum.

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%.

[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.