MEN are the more sickly sex when it comes to health - dying sooner than women and more like to suffer cancer, commit suicide or takes drugs, according to a report today.

And one key difference is the amount spent by the NHS on their health than on women's - eight times less - so that, for instance, just £37,000 a year is spent on research into prostate cancer against £4.3 million on breast cancer research.

But it is hard to accept that this is down to pure discrimination.

A lot is down to attitude and the greater readiness of women to be educated about their health.

This situation amounts to a challenge to the health professionals to get men to do the same.

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