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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th Birthday
HealthJustright - Issue 10
 
Aromatherapy is high on the popularity list of alternative therapies. There are over 6,000 aromatherapists in the UK.
HealthTriple Helix - Winter 2004
 
AIDS the global pandemic is accelerating. About 40 million people, including 2.5 million children, are now living worldwide with HIV, 95 per cent in the developing world. Each year five million people are newly infected and the annual death rate has risen from just over two million in 1999 to three million in 2003. At current rates of infection there will be 45 million more with HIV by 2010.
HealthTriple Helix - Winter 2004
 
Chlamydia is diagnosed in 35,500 men and 45,500 women in England and Wales each year, doubling the figures from 1997.
Among infertile couples who tested positive for antibodies, 6.8 per cent of women and 7.1 per cent of men carried chlamydia DNA in their urine.
HealthThe Guardian - 29th April 2004
 
Only 7 per cent of caesarean births are chosen without specific medical justification - that amounts to a few thousand women. The rising rate of caesarean births is an international phenomenon. America and Britain have high rate of more than 20 per cent of all births, but there are other countries which are much higher, such as Brazil (35 per cent) and Puerto Rico (31.4 per cent). At the same time, some northern European countries such as Norway and Sweden have brought their caesarean rates down to below 10 per cent, apparently without any damaging consequences for child or mother. The World Health Organisation has suggested that the target rate for a country should be about 15 per cent and even lower for industrialised, developed countries. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) has finally noticed that British women are having too many caesareans. They are having way too many hysterectomies too, but so far Nice hasn't objected.
HealthThe Guardian Thursday G2 - 29th April 2004
 
Over 10,000 surgical and biopsy specimens were audited. Only 40 per cent of them had consent forms attached and of those only 23 per cent indicated a preference. If the human tissue bill which is legislation drawn up by the government after the organ retention scandals at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool, was law, that would mean that 67 per cent of the samples taken in Southampton could not be used for teaching and research. One study in the British Medical Journal found that 99 per cent of their 3,000 patients gave consent for their tissue to be used for research.
HealthThe Guardian Thursday G2 - 29th April 2004
 
Adults who are physically active reduce their risk of developing major chronic disease, such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, by up to half, and the risk of early death by about 20 - 30 per cent.
HealthThe Guardian - 30th April 2004
 
A study of a range of children's juice products found that some contained so little real juice that a child would have to down 100 cartons to consume one litre.
Ribena blackcurrent juice in a 288ml carton was found to be just 6 per cent pure. The Twist -n- Squeeze orange drink was 5 per cent real juice and Robinsons Fruit Shoot Apple 11 per cent. Sunny Delight no-added-sugar Florida Style was 15 per cent pure; Tesco Kids It's very refreshing! Orange and Peach drink was 20.5 per cent; and Disney Winnie the Pooh Roo Juice Winterberry was 55 per cent. The survey, published in Food Magazine, concluded that if parents bought pure juice at the same price per ml, they would pay anywhere between £3.53 and £34.67 for a litre.
HealthThe Guardian - 30th April 2004
 
The results, published in the European Journal of Neurology, showed smokers are 2.7 times more at risk of the brain disorder alzheimer's than non-smokers. Heavy smokers run a three times higher risk than light smokers.
HealthThe Daily Mail - 4th May 2004
 
Around 30 per cent of children and young adults are affected by an allergy and that number is set to rise. Half of that number have a severe allergy that affects their daily lives. In the past 20 years, the number of people with confirmed allergies has jumped fourfold. Cases of eczema and asthma have doubled over the same period. Four out of ten school children have at least one allergy, and experts predict that one in three adults will develop an allergy in some time during their lives.
While 80 per cent of us get the vacuum out at least once a week, research by Morphy Richards shows that poor cleaning routines in many homes create ideal breeding conditions for dust mites. A suprising 44 per cent of homes never vacuum their bed mattresses or upholstery, and 37 per cent of duvets have never been laundered.

Major factors that favour the household dust mites:
10 per cent of people vacuum their house less than once a month.
32 per cent of homes no longer get a spring clean.
40 per cent of people don't clean carpets or floors when moving into a new home.
61 per cent of homeowners don't shampoo or steam clean carpets.
HealthThe War Cry - 17th April 2004
 
Eighty per cent of doctors admit to over-prescribing anti-depressants. One in three GP appointments involves a patient reporting depression.
Prescriptions for the drugs have soared in the past 10 years, from 10 million to 26 million in 2002.
HealthThe Church of England Newspaper - 15th April 2004
 
Over 8,000 people worldwide are dying every day of AIDS related illnesses. In Southern Africa about 5 million adults are affected by HIV/AIDS, many of these people are aged between 15 and 40. There are 3.2 million AIDS orphans.
More than 1 million out of 10 million church members will die of AIDS.
Out of 768 children, 568 have lost one parent through AIDS, and 212 are double orphans, both parents have died. Of these 248 are called vulnerable children whose parents are too ill to work; 34 children under the age of 10 are head of the family
HealthThe Church of England Newspaper - 15th April 2004
 
The majority of people are unaware that over 5 per cent of their countrymen have serious disability. In the UK, this percentage translates to 6 million people with serious disabilities, while double that number may class themselves as having a minor disability.
As out population ages life expectancy increases, statistics estimates that by 2051 about 25 per cent of our population will be aged 65 years and over.
HealthThe Briefing - April 2004
 
More than half the UK women have taken some form of anti-depressant, according to a survey. The study showed 56 per cent had taken prescribed anti-depressants or homeopathic alternatives. Many women were stressed.
HealthThe Sentinel - April 15th 2004
 
African-American women are 23 times as likely to be infected with the Aids virus as white women and account for 71.8 per cent of new HIV cases among women in 29 US states.
One of the most plausible explanations is segregation. African-Americans make up 12 per cent of the US population, 42 per cent of all people living with Aids and more than half of all new infections. They are least likely to have partners of different races.
HealthThe Guardian - 6th April 2004
 
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