More Chinese women than men commit suicide: media
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China is the only country in the world where suicides among women outnumber those of men, with rural suicides more common than those in the city, state media said on Tuesday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 8 December: More than 13.2 per cent of netizens under the age of 18 suffer from internet addiction, said a report issued by the China National Children's Centre here Friday [8 December].
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More than 100,000 Chinese died in workplace accidents last year, including on the roads and railways, but the figure was down one-tenth on 2006, a senior official said on Friday.
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People with epilepsy are three times more likely to commit suicide than the general population, research suggests.
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Schizophrenia, more common in men than in women in most parts of the world, is more prevalent in women in China, suggesting several external factors can play a part in the mental illness, scientists said on Friday.
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In the past two decades in China, female births have declined markedly compared with male births.
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China will expand the use of lethal  injections to replace execution by gunshot, state media said on  Thursday of a country which kills more convicts than anywhere  else.
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Depressed men and women who consider themselves affiliated with a religion are less likely to attempt suicide than their non-religious counterparts, according to new study findings.
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More than 50 percent of Chinese men over 40 suffer from varying degrees of impotence and most delay seeking treatment because they are too embarrassed, according to a nationwide survey.
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More people kill themselves each   year than die from wars and murders combined, but most suicides   could be prevented, two international experts on suicide said   on Friday.
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The suicide rate among 45-to-54-year-olds increased nearly 20 percent from 1999 to 2004, the latest year studied.
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World Health Organisation figures show a suicide takes place somewhere in the world every 40 seconds.
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LONDON: Babies of teenage mothers and infants who have a low birth weight have a higher risk of committing suicide later in life than other children, Swedish scientists said yesterday.
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One in six calls to a 24-hour helpline last year concerning mental health came from girls contemplating suicide.
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Industrial and road accidents killed 101,480 people in China last year, a drop of about 10 percent compared to 2006, the state's safety watchdog said in a report seen Sunday.
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BEING born to a teenage mother can double a personâs risk of committing suicide, new research has claimed. Such people were twice as likely to kill themselves in later life than those whose mothers gave
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Babies of teenage mothers and infants who have a low birth weight have a higher risk of committing suicide later in life than other children, according to Swedish scientists.