A PAHO systematic analysis of WHO estimates finds injury rates falling in most of the region but violence and drowning still splitting countries apart, with men carrying nearly three-quarters of the burden.
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EXPLAINERChildhood sleepwalking is usually harmless and outgrown. In adults it is rarer but a different proposition — one clinic series found most had done something violent during an episode and one in six had been injured.
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An analysis across the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 found economic losses from player injuries topped 730 million euros in a season, with hamstrings hit hardest.
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Global Burden of Disease data show prevalent traumatic brain injury cases in people aged 15-49 rose from 12.53 million in 1990 to 14.99 million in 2021, even as age-standardised rates fell.
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Four players averaging 18-plus points a game are out for the 2026 NCAA tournament's opening round — as many as the previous 20 tournaments combined, by one count.
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The first nationally representative analysis of the 2024 conflict in Lebanon draws on hospital and ministry records. Its most consequential number is how many of the dead arrived already dead.
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