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Brain health

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Autism diagnoses rose only in women and girls after 2020

Tracking 171,134 patients in a US health system, JAMA Network Open found male autism diagnoses flat or falling while female rates climbed 19% a year.

Aug 1, 2026

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Australia banned under-16s from social media. Most kept using it.

Three months after the world's first national minimum age law took effect, a BMJ study found more than 85% of under-16s were still on the restricted platforms.

Aug 1, 2026

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Broken sleep in perimenopause tracked worse thinking decades on

A study of 2,097 postmenopausal women in Menopause found the worst perimenopausal sleep went with lower cognitive scores years later, but only in women woken by symptoms.

Jul 31, 2026

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Medicare wellness visits raised early memory diagnoses by 28%

Researchers matched 66,443 pairs of Texas Medicare patients. Those who took the free annual wellness visit were far likelier to have mild cognitive impairment caught.

Jul 31, 2026