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| A vaccine against malaria, which kills up to3 million people a year, could be a reality by the end of the decade, scientists involved in one of the biggest clinical trials in Africa said yesterday. Results from the second phase of the trial, involving more than 2,000 children showed that the vaccine protected 30% of them against the disease for at least 6 months. | |
| Health | The Independent – 15 October 2004 |
| A new study conducted in Sweden suggests people who use a mobile phone for 10 years or more might increase the risk of developing a rare benign tumour along a nerve on the side of the head where they hold a phone. | |
| Health | The Independent – 15 October 2004 |
| Millions of people work within walking distance of their home, exploding the myth that everyone is mobile, according to a new report today. Around 10 million Britons work less than three miles from where they live, research for the Work Foundation found. | |
| Environment | The Sentinel – 14 October 2004 |
| A majority of drug addicts would rather receive help to kick their habit than be taught how to use drugs safely, a report said today. Nearly 57% of drug addicts wanted treatment courses to help them get off drugs rather than offer 'harm reduction' initiatives such as methadone programmes or clean needles, researchers at Glasgow University found. Drug treatment centres may need to re-assess their tactics in light of the findings, the report said. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Sentinel – 14 October 2004 |
| According to a new study, the numbers of asexual people could be approaching those of declared gay men and lesbians, and they are demanding that the world recognizes them in the same way. Drawing on a 1994 survey of 16,000 adults in the UK, Dr Antony Bogaert found that 1% said they had never felt sexually attracted to anyone. Double that number have never had sex. The figure was not far behind the 3% who reported feeling same-sex attraction. But the true number of asexuals may be far higher. | |
| Social Issues | The Independent – 14 October 2004 |
| Tall, thin teenage girls who put on a growth spurt a puberty are at highest risk of breast cancer - and milk may be the culprit, researchers suggest today. Their shorter, chubbier sisters are at lower risk and remain so throughout their adult lives until they reach the menopause. These findings from a large Danish study of more than 117,000 women confirm that height is a risk factor in breast cancer and show that it is growth in childhood that has the greatest influence. An increase in milk drinking has been suggested as a factor behind the large increase in average heights in Japan . As the Japanese adopted a more Western diet in the two decades after the Second World War, 12-year old girls gained 15cm in height on average. That gain has been paralleled 30 years later by an increase in breast cancer in the same generation of women; the incidence has doubled from 40 to 80 cases per 100,000 of the population. | |
| Health | The Independent – 14 October 2004 |
| A survey by the Poppy Project this year discovered there were 730 flats, massage parlours and saunas selling sex in London, with 81% of the women in them from overseas. It concluded that a growing population was being coerced into prostitution and found evidence of trafficking rings operating in all parts of Britain. Prostitution and people trafficking is now considered the world's third most lucrative 'black market' activity after weapons and drugs trading, with hundreds of thousands of women and children believed to be traded across boarders every year for sexual exploitation and to work in agriculture, catering or domestic service for little or no money. The most common sources of women heading for Britain are Albania, Moldova, Ukraine, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Thailand. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 14 Ocotber 2004 |
| Saddam Hussein's regime has been accused by human rights organizations of being responsible for killing up to 300,000 Iraqi and Kurdish civilians, although the figures are disputed. The US authorities and the Iraqi interim government claim that more than 40 mass graves have been identified so far. | |
| Disasters/War | The Independent – 14 October 2004 |
| More than ½ of NHS trusts do not have enough A&E staff to provide a proper round-the-clock service, a report suggested today. The NAO's survey of 126 trusts in England found shortages in A&E clinical staff were common, they found 84% of trusts reported a shortage of nurses compared with funded post, 43% said there was a shortage of permanent consultants and 55% reported a lack of other medical staff. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – 13 October 2004 |
| Home Office figures released earlier this year showed that firearms offences in England and Wales had risen from 13,874 in 1998-99 to 24,070 in 2002-2003. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 13 October 2004 |
| A new drive to teach Islam in schools will be launched today. Education Secretary Charles Clarke has backed the move, organized by the Muslim Council of Great Britain (MCB). He said it was vital to creating "understanding" between different cultures. Resource packs prepared for schools will help overcome "barriers" to teaching Islam in schools. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Sentinel – 12 October 2004 |
| The following statistics are related to the pensions "crisis" which has been reported in the news this week: The Government has identified a £57 billion gap between how much people are saving and how much they need to ensure a comfortable retirement. Individually, there is a £70,000 gap between how much people think they need to save for retirement and the reality. There are 1 million UK pensioners living below the poverty line. There are 13 million British people not saving enough to provide a secure retirement, almost ½ the working population. 12% of your earnings should be put aside of you start saving for your pension at the age of 25. 22% of your savings need to be put aside each month if you don't start saving for your pension until 40 years old. Adults under 30 spend 24% of their earnings on restaurants, hotels, recreation, alcohol and tobacco. The UK government spend 5% of the GDP on pensions. Other EU governments spend an average of 11% of GDP on pensions. 18% of the UK population is currently over the pensionable age. It is predicted that 25% of the population will be over the pensionable age by 2040. 60% of Britons are working to pay the pensions of the 21% who have retired. It is calculated that 56% of Britons will be working in 2030 to pay the pensions of the 27% retired. A non-smoking female needs to have saved £110,000 at age 65 to buy a retirement income of £100 a week. A non-smoking male needs to have saved £500,000 to provide an inflation-proof annual income of £20,000. The average pension pot at retirement age is just £30,000, buying an income of £30 a week. In 1978, people were living an average of 15 years beyond the pensionable age of 65. Today, people live an average of 18 years beyond 65, and it is calculated that in 2030, people will live to an average age of 86, 21 years beyond the pensionable age. | |
| Social Issues | The Independent – 12 October 2004 |
| The shocking extent of race-hate crime in modern Britain was exposed yesterday by figures revealing an elevenfold increase in the number of victims of racially motivated attack or abuse in the past decade. The charity Victim Support disclosed that it helped 33,374 people who believed they had been targeted because of their skin colour in the past 12 months. 10 years ago, it handled 3,072 similar complaints. But the charity's annual report, to be published shortly, will disclose that the number increased to 20,058 in 2000-01; 23,130 in 2001-02; it fell slightly to 20,950 in 2002-03 and then jumped to 33,374 in 2003-04. A study of race-hate crime by its branch in Claderdale, West Yorkshire found 34% of complaints involved allegations of verbal abuse, 22% of criminal damage, 7% of wounding, as well as smaller numbers of harassment and threatening. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 12 October 2004 |
| The £283 million bill for locking up young offenders is largely wasted, with the vast majority committing new crimes when they are released, MPs warned yesterday. In a damning survey of the youth justice system, the Commons Public Accounts Committee also said teenage offenders faced problems finding jobs, housing or education when they were released. Last year the police dealt with about 268,000 offences, with the courts imposing 93,000 sentences, including some 6,500 spells in custody. But the committee discovered that 80% of the teenagers who were locked up were reconvicted within two years prompting it to warn: "Short periods of custody are unlikely to make an impact on offending behaviour, nor help offenders gain the qualifications necessary for a change in lifestyle. | |
| Crime | The Independent – 12 October 2004 |
| Italy's European commissioner-designate, Rocco Buttiglione, faced a formal call from MEPs for his resignation yesterday over the description of homosexuality as a "sin". The furore arose after a confirmation hearing in the European Parliament last week in which Mr Buttiglione, who is a close friend of Pope John Paul II, said: "I may think that homosexuality is a sin; this has no effect on politics unless I say that homosexuality is a crime." He added, "The rights of homosexuals should be defended on the same basis as the rights of all other European citizens. I would not accept the idea that homosexuals are a category apart." At the same event he defended the traditional heterosexual marriage with men in the role of protector of women. | |
| Social Issues | The Independent – 12 October 2004 |
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