With so many patients meeting the criteria, the hospital is prioritising those like Ray who need surgery or who have multiple weight-related health complications.

On its site, Polymarket says this is one criterion for the company opening a prediction market: “Is there social good or news value in understanding the probability generated by the market?”

"Our machines dream until they come up with a perfect drug that fits all our criteria."

In 1978, the IRS tried to expand this by proposing a rule that would strip schools of tax-exempt status if they didn't meet very conservative criteria for including students of color.

He said it would be helpful if the public was better informed about this criteria - and how there is no treatment or 'cure' for autism, which is not an illness.