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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
77 per cent of men have looked at internet pornography compared with 40 per cent of women.
82 per cent of men have had a one night stand compared to 74 per cent of women. The younger you are the more likely this is.
53 per cent of men have had sex without a condom outside a long term relationship.
32 per cent of those people who have taken cocaine still think it should be illegal to do so.
HealthThe Times - 16th September 2004
 
Birth defects amount to 0.4 per cent for abnormalities such as Down's syndrome or spina bifida and between 2 and 4 per cent for minor problems that can be corrected without lasting damage such as cleft palate or hypospadias.
HealthThe Times - 18th August 2004
 
The Government Pharmaceutical Organisation have produced a low cost pill taken twice a day that holds back the wasting disease AIDs. Costing only $29 per month, in 2001, the same treatment cost $490 a month.
HealthThe Universe - 1st August 2004
 
The Office for National Statistics show that life expectancy in Great Britain increased between 1981 and 2001. A woman born in 2001 can now expect to live an average of 80.4 years (compared with 76.8 years in 1981) and a man an average of 75.7 years (70.9 in 1981).
HealthChristian Herald - 14th August 2004
 
Health Protection Agency figures show that there has been a 3.6 per cent rise in MRSA throughout the NHS in the past year, with blood infections rising from 7,384 to 7,647.
As many as 100,000 patients get some form of infection in hospital each year in the UK, and 5,000 patients die from it. Around 50 per cent of such infections are acquired during surgery and many more in the post-operative period.
HealthThe Baptist Times - 5th August 2004
 
The Department of Health last week revealed that there were 181,600 abortions in England and Wales last year - up 3.2 per cent on 2002. A further 12,217 abortions were carried out in Scotland - up 3.7 per cent on 2002.
HealthSalvationist - 31st July 2004
 
In 1999, 47 per cent of children under five years old in India were considered moderately or severely underweight.
HealthSalvationist - 31st July 2004
 
Over 10 million people in the UK suffer from headaches and migraine.
One in six people in the UK suffer from migraine.
Almost three times as many women suffer from migraine than men.
The average frequency of migraine attacks is one a month, but over 17 per cent of sufferers have more than 40 attacks a year.
Each working day up to 90,000 people are absent from work or school as a result of migraine. Headache accounts for approximately 20 per cent of all absenteeism due to sickness.
In 1999, the NHS spent approximately £52.8 million on the acute treatment of migraine.
The indirect cost of migraine to the UK economy, including loss in productivity, is estimated to be between £741 million and £1.5 billion per annum.
A three year study of headache patients found that 13 per cent of them were unable to obtain or keep full time work because of their condition.
HealthThe Sentinel Sunday - 8th August 2004
 
Official figures from the Teenage Pregnancy Unit show that Blackpool has 74.8 conceptions per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 17, while the national average is 42.6 per cent.
HealthThe Times - 10th August 2004
 
Homeless youths are 11 times more likely to die from suicide and drug overdose than those under 25 who have more stable backgrounds according to The Journal of the American Medical Association. The major causes of deaths were suicide, followed by drug overdose, accident and hepatitis.
HealthThe Times - 10th August 2004
 
Meningitis is an infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord.
Viral meningitis is the more common, but generally less serious.
Can be passed on by coughing, sneezing or poor hygiene.
It is fatal in one in 10 cases. One in 7 is left with a serious disability, such as deafness or brain injury.
Last year more than 2,000 people contracted meningitis, and half developed septicaemia.
Since the introduction of the meningococcal C vaccine across the UK the number of cases recorded in the North West Region has dwindled from 151 in 1999 to 12 in 2003.
HealthSentinel Sunday - 18th July 2004
 
A recent survey of 4,000 men and women conducted by the BDA (British Dietic Association) showed that repeated attempts to diet often end in failure. A third of adult slimmers questioned admitted that they ended up a stone (6kg) heavier than their original weight only weeks after dieting.
Now that obesity affects one 6 year old in ten in the UK a spokeswoman for the BDA believes that parents should avoid introducing their children to quick fix diet solutions.
HealthThe Times - 20th July 2004
 
More than 70,000 cases of skin cancer is diagnosed in Britain every year, resulting in 2,000 deaths last year from malignant melanoma which is found in moles on the skin.
Cancer Research UK said that melanoma accounts for 2 per cent of all newly diagnosed cancer every year: there are 3,000 new cases in men and 3,900 new cases in women in Britain every year.
In 2002, more than 1,600 people died of malignant melanoma in Britain.
HealthThe Times - 20th July 2004
 
Organ donation enables about 2,700 people to take on a new lease of life in the UK every year.
There are more than 7,000 people across the country waiting for a transplant.
The number of people needing a transplant is expected to rise steeply over the next decade due to an ageing population, an increase in kidney failure and scientific advances resulting in more people being suitable for a transplant.
HealthThe Sentinel - 20th July 2004
 
The average waiting time for a kidney transplant is two and a half years.
Nearly 400 people die every year in the UK while waiting for a kidney, lung, heart or liver transplant and many more lose their lives before they even get on to the transplant list.
A year after surgery 94 per cent of kidneys in living donor transplants, 87 per cent of kidneys from people who have died, 82 per cent of organs in liver transplants and 80 per cent of organs in heart transplants are still functioning well.
HealthThe Sentinel - 23rd July 2004
 
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