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Suicide mortality increased among adolescents and young adults across the Americas from 2000 to 2021. Rates varied by age, sex, and region, with widening disparities observed in population-level data.

Each additional hour of daily digital screen exposure was associated with 21% higher odds of myopia in a 335,524-participant meta-analysis, with the steepest odds increase observed between 1 and 4 hours of daily exposure, though substantial heterogeneity and cross-sectional study designs precluded causal conclusions.

County-level analysis of nearly 5 million Medicare beneficiaries identified more than 10-fold geographic variation in late-onset epilepsy incidence, with insufficient sleep, heat index, and lack of vehicle access among the strongest area-level predictors.

A case-control study identified covert mortality nodavirus, previously known only in aquatic animals, in iris tissue of patients with persistent ocular hypertensive viral anterior uveitis, with exposure risk concentrated among those who handle or consume raw aquatic animals daily.