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Research has found that 31% of girls aged 15 and 16 were regular smokers compared with 16% of boys. Among adults, 27% of men and 25% of women smoke. The gap between the sexes has been narrowing for a decade as smoking rates among men have come down.
Health	The Independent - 23rd September 2004



A review of 14 trials of vitamin pills taken by 170,000 people found they increased the death rate by 6 per cent. One in three women and one in four men in the UK is estimated to take dietry supplements for health reasons.
Health	The Independent - 1st October 2004



Prostate cancer mainly affects men over the age of 65, although more than 1,000 annual cases affect men under 55. In 50% of cases the disease will spread before diagnosis. However one in three may be slow growing and such patients can survive for more than 5 years without treatment.
Health	The Sentinel - 29th August 2004



The lifetime risk of breast cancer in women is one in nine, making it the most common cancer affecting UK women. There are more than 40,000 new cases in the UK each year and 3,700 of those will be in the West Midlands.
Health	The Sentinel - 29th August 2004



There are 300 to 500 million cases of malaria each year, with at least 1 million, but some put the figure as high as 2.7 million, annual deaths. Aids is the only condition that leads to more deaths. In 2000 there were 1,129 confirmed cases in England and Wales. Alomst all were contracted abroad.
Health	The Times - 19th August 2004



Government statistics have shown that abortions were carried out on 181,600 UK resident women, a 3.2% rise from 2002. There was also a total of 37,043 taking place on girls aged 15 to 19.
Health	The Universe - 5th September 2004



Autism is a spectrum disorder which impairs the ability to communicate with others, or form social relationships, and sometimes leads to the development of strong obsessional interests. More than 500,000 people in the UK, including more than 100,000 children, have the condition according to the National Autistic Society. Boys are four times more likely to develop autism than girls, and autistic children are twenty times more likely to be excluded from school.
Health	The Universe - 19th September 2004



Everyone knows smoking is harmful, but still around 26% of British women smoke, and some 9,000 women die each year from coronary heart disease brought on by smoking.
Health	Good News - September 2004



There are 250,000 sweat glands on the feet. Your feet can swell by up to one shoe size when hot. Nylon tights don't absorb sweat at all. People who go barefoot or wear open sandals most of the time don't suffer from smelly feet or athletes foot. Hot swollen feet make your legs ache and feel tired. Seven out of ten people don't treat their athlete's foot properly. You don't have to be an athlete to get athlete's foot.
Health	The War Cry - 21st August 2004



The Terrence Higgins Trust is warning that if the NHS does not introduce urgent measures to tackle the growing crisis, HIV care alone will cost an extra £300m by 2010, and an additional £6bn for lifetime HIV treatment. Diagnosis of HIV increased by 200 per cent between 1996 and 2002, and infection rates of all other sexually transmitted diseases have grown too.
Health	Third Sector - 16th June 2004



Cambodia has the fastest rate of HIV infection in South East Asia.
Health	Tear Times - Autumn 2004



The current life expectancy of a newborn infant in Norway is 78.9 years, the highest in the world. For a new born infant in Zambia it is 32.7 years, the lowest in the world.
Health	Evangelical Times - September 2004



One in ten patients admitted to NHS hospitals will fall victim to medical errors. Medical errors and accidents contribute to the deaths of 72,000 people a year, and they are blamed for 40,000. They also cost the NHS £2 billion in increased hospital stays alone.
Health	The Times - 13th August 2004



Adults aged 15 to 49 comprised just over half, 52 per cent of the world's population in 2001. This is the group perhaps most vulnerable to AIDS or HIV, and 1.2 per cent of them are infected.
Health	The Church of England Newspaper - 3rd September 2004



Smoking kills about half of all smokers. One in ten teenagers is a regular smoker. Every year in Britain 114,000 smokers die - one fifth of all deaths. About 13 million adults (28 per cent of men and 26 per cent of women) smoke cigarettes.
Health	The Times - 10th September 2004

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