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'Tackling the staggeringly high level of suicides among young men was top of the agenda at a conference on men’s mental health in Calcot yesterday.

Suicide is one of the biggest killers of young men, who are four times more likely to commit suicide than young women, and every minute there are two deaths by suicide in Britain.

In the past six years, 6,729 men aged between 15 and 34 have killed themselves in the UK.

Key speakers stressed the importance of raising awareness of the signs of depression in young men and highlighted a training programme for therapists at the Charlie Waller Institute at The University of Reading, which aims to help reduce the numbers of young men taking their own lives.'

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'BOUNTIFUL — Two teachers charged with rape in a junior high school sex scandal will be undergoing mental health evaluations, their attorneys told the Deseret News.

Both women are accused of having a sexual relationship with the same boy, beginning when he was 13.

"We want to get all the information," said Sean Druyon, the lawyer for Linda Neff. "When you look at this at first blush, here's a 40-something-year-old woman, here's a 13-year-old, almost 14-year-old boy, 'What was she thinking? She must be a pedophile.' That's not always the case."
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"I think there's some psychological issues," he said Tuesday. "The kid is clearly a victim, but I think these ladies were somewhat vulnerable."'

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'A NEW project has been launched to cut the death rate in men from preventable illnesses.

Steve Trumble of the The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners said: "With lung cancer for every 100 women who die, 174 men will die.

"It is similar with emphysema and asthma.

"With suicides, 78 per cent of deaths are men and 75 per cent of transport accidents deaths are men rather than women," Associate Professor Trumble said.

"Cirrhosis of the liver, alcohol-related illnesses and skin cancers are more common in men.'

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'OTTAWA -- Increasing the number of women doctors might be the right prescription for a healthier population, two Canadian researchers argue in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association.

Taking direct aim at doctors and data suggesting women physicians don't work as hard as men, Queen's University family medicine specialist Dr. Susan Phillips and undergrad Emily Austin conclude not only do females pull their weight, "the feminization of medicine is good for health outcomes."
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On average, women doctors do work fewer hours than men. Canada's 2007 National Physician Survey found that among all physician specialties, men put in an average 53.8 hours a week whereas women worked 47.5 hours.

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'SANTA ROSA, CA -- Body Zone Fitness, which took over the space formerly occupied by Body Central, closed its doors last week, according to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Body Central was the women-only club that closed a few months after a judge ruled in a lawsuit that it must admit men as members.
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In 2003, a Santa Rosa man, Phillip Kottle, filed a complaint that he was denied a membership to Body Central because of his gender. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) said that Body Central violated California’s civil rights law barring businesses from discriminating based on sex, race or religion.

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'A SYDNEY woman stabbed a man to death after he complained about her barking dog, telling him "not to speak to her dog like that", the NSW Supreme Court has been told.

Joseph Durrant, 47, was stabbed from behind after becoming involved in a late night argument about his neighbour's barking dog in Phyllis Street, Mt Pritchard, in Sydney's west.
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Durrant then became involved in a physical struggle with Ms Whitmore, her brother Frederick Reyon Whitmore and her partner Steven Spiro Sotiropoulos, and was fatally stabbed.

Mr Whitmore and Mr Sotiropoulos are facing a joint trial in the NSW Supreme Court at which they have pleaded not guilty to his murder.
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In his opening address today, crown prosecutor Chris Maxwell QC told the jury that Ms Whitmore had threatened to stab Durrant moments before the attack and had been seen brandishing a knife by Adam Duncan, who was attending a party next door.

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'President Obama will sign an executive order tomorrow to establish a White House Council on Women and Girls, according to an administration official familiar with the move.

The Council will be chaired by Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser and personal friend to the president, and the day-to-day operations will be run Tina Tchen, who is currently director of the White House Office of Public Liaison and was a major fundraiser for Obama during the campaign.

"The mission of the Council will be to provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges confronted by women and girls to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies and programs impact women and families," reads a memo describing the move and obtained by The Fix.'

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'Fire Minister Sadiq Khan has ruled out a ban on white men at brigade recruitment days despite new local diversity targets being drawn up.

On a visit to Bristol he insisted that while it was vital to boost the number of female and ethnic minorities firefighters he fears the tactic employed last year by the Avon service could fuel resentment.

Officials barred white men from four of the five recruitment days held locally sparking outrage.

But Mr Khan told the Bristol Post: "The best people for the jobs should get the jobs. I don't want a situation where people are resentful.'

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'On Saturday, in the Kaplan Auditorium of the Henderson County Main Library, there was a fellowship of women. The Philanthropic Education Organization hosted an education fair to introduce women of all ages to the various loans, scholarships and grants the organization offers for women trying to go to school.

“We have the heart and the means to help women achieve their educational goals,” said Pauline Wickens, organizer with the state’s chapter of PEO. “What we don’t always have is visibility or accessibility to those who could benefit from our services.”'

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'LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - A local state district judge is believed to be the first in the state to utilize a new provision in the law that allows a protective order for an abused woman to be extended to the family pets. The new legal tool is expected to save not just pets but human lives too.

For many pets are truly members of the family. Statistics show women who are victims of abuse sometimes stay in abusive situations rather than leave beloved pets. But a change in the law allows orders to protect women to now include their pets.
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The women's shelter has kennels for pets of women who seek protection there. They hope other attorneys and judges will also utilize the change in the law to protect abuse victims and their pets. Says Zilbert, "Lives will be saved both four legged and human because of the fact that protection of the pets is no longer a reason for a woman who's being abused to stay with the abuser."'

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'A WOMAN pleaded guilty to murder yesterday as court documents revealed she gave her lover written instructions on how to kill her ex-boyfriend and dispose of his body.

"Wipe him out of existence, go somewhere two hours out, burn his body," one note read.

The Herald can reveal for the first time the events leading to the death of David Harrison, 23, who was stabbed to death in the garage of a rented Muswellbrook house in 2007.

The Victorian man's body was discovered in July 2007 in a shallow grave at Greta, bearing 35 injuries, mainly stab wounds.'

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'An “unashamed feminist”, Tyre was brought up to worry about the achievement of girls. She was astonished to discover that it is now boys who are falling behind. “Evidence of this trend is everywhere,” she says. “People think there's something wrong with boys, but I'd say that's not necessarily true: it's what we expect of them instead.

“When you talk to boys about school, they say it's girly, that it's lots of ladies talking,” says Tyre. She argues that boys are badly served from pre-school onwards. They are not allowed to run around and not taught by enough male teachers. There has also been an educational shift away from play towards learning and targets at an earlier age.

She is convinced that reading and writing skills are the key to life and educational achievements, but says that boys are falling way behind in these skills. This is partly because they start to read later than girls, and never recover from that earlier deficit. But it is also, Tyre argues, because boys are given the wrong books to read.'

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'A marriage gone cold and a lust for money led to a murder-for-hire plot that left a well-respected Folsom area paramedic dead, and his wife and an accomplice behind bars, authorities said Monday.

The plot, apparently in the works for months, culminated in the strangling of Mario Scramuzza Jr., 48, Friday night. St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies began to investigate the case Saturday morning. By Monday, the victim's wife, Gina Scramuzza, 41, and Carlos A. Rodriguez, 38, of Kenner were booked with first-degree murder.
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The plot unraveled almost immediately, when deputies noticed inconsistencies in Gina Scramuzza's story and demeanor, Detective Sgt. George Cox said.

"She didn't act like a grieving widow," he said. During a weekend interrogation, she confessed to the killing and fingered Rodriguez as her accomplice, he said.'

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'A VICTIM of domestic abuse has welcomed proposals that would give police powers to warn women if new partners have violent histories.

Abusive partners could be placed on a register and monitored by police if a new Government plan gets the go-ahead.
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“At least we would know about it. I think we should name and shame them.”

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has asked Wiltshire Police chief constable Brian Moore to consider what powers police need to crack down on wife beaters.'

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'A consultation to tackle violence against women in England and Wales has been announced by ministers.

It will consider applying more powers against those convicted of domestic violence, and better ways to pass information between police forces.

Ministers are also considering giving police the right to ban offenders from the family home for a fortnight.
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Ms Smith has called for a national debate on the issue and has asked police to report back on the powers they need to get a grip on the problem.

She said the consultation may also consider sharing information on those convicted with women going into relationships.
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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told the BBC: "Any violence against women, inside the home, or outside the home, is unacceptable.
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The latest Home Office figures for 2007/8 show 2.2% of women of any age said their partner used minor or severe force against them over the last year. The figure for men was slightly lower at 2.0%.'