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Undergoing heart surgery from medical necessity to replace or repair one or more heart valves.
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The valves of the heart open and close as part of the pumping action, which circulates blood around the body. When these valves become diseased, the ability of the heart to pump properly is reduced. Surgery can be undertaken to either repair or replace the damaged valve.
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Asthma sufferers to be offered advice at Allergy Show
25 April 2008 16:35:36
Asthma sufferers are being offered the chance to learn more about the disease at the 2008 Allergy and Gluten Free Show in London.
Charity Asthma UK will be one of more than 100 exhibitors at the event providing information about the disease - which can affect life insurance premiums - and the opportunity to speak to a qualified asthma nurse.
To be held at the Kensington Olympia from June 13th to 15th, the event is designed for people affected by allergies, sensitive skin and eczema, as well as asthma.
Up to 45 free seminars, led by allergy professionals and diet and lifestyle experts will also be on offer.
Meanwhile, scientists from the University of Chicago recently claimed that they had found a gene variant which increases susceptibility to asthma.
Researchers claimed the finding "may have important implications in the early identification of, susceptibility to, and prevention and treatment of asthma".
According to Asthma UK, 5.2 million people in the country are currently receiving treatment for the disease.
Please click here for advice on UK life insurance, life insurance policies and a life insurance quote.
Teenagers may need booster jab
06 June 2008 17:52:46
A team of researchers that undertook a study of children who had been given a jab for a deadly virus have discovered that their immunity may have dropped over time.
The results of the study indicate that teenagers may need a booster dose of the meningitis C vaccine to give them full immunity.
Of the 1,000 children involved in the study, more than 20 per cent appeared to be inadequately protected when they were tested five years after being vaccinated.
Those that were ten years old or more when they were given the vaccine were found to have full immunity five years later.
Children that were aged between six and eight when they were given the vaccine, did not have sufficient protection in more than 20 per cent of cases.
Study leader, Dr Matthew Snape, said: "Over the next few years children who were immunised between the ages of one and six will be entering adolescence and it's important to maintain immunity to meningitis C in this age group."
Routine immunisation for meningitis C was introduced in 1999 and before that up to 78 children a year died as a result of contracting the infection.
Serious STD cases in Scotland double in a decade
30 July 2008 17:22:20
Cases of acute sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have significantly increased in the last ten years, according to latest research.
Figures have revealed that there were 22,906 cases of acute STDs in 2007, which is a rise of seven per cent on the previous year.
The number of men infected every year has increased 102 per cent to 12,712, with the total for women rising to 10,194.
The Scottish Conservative health spokesperson Mary Scanlon said that the figures showed a "shocking and dramatic increase".
This shocking data may encourage more people to take out life insurance in order to cover themselves and their families in the worst case scenario.
Research shows that the number of syphilis cases has risen in the last ten years from eight in 1998 to 249 last year.
Chlamydia infections increased the most from 1,770 in 1996 to 9,461 last year, with HIV cases almost trebling in the same period.
This follows news that sex and relationships education could begin at an earlier age in primary schools in order to tackle the numbers of STDs and teenage pregnancies in the UK.
25 April 2008 16:35:36
Asthma sufferers are being offered the chance to learn more about the disease at the 2008 Allergy and Gluten Free Show in London.
Charity Asthma UK will be one of more than 100 exhibitors at the event providing information about the disease - which can affect life insurance premiums - and the opportunity to speak to a qualified asthma nurse.
To be held at the Kensington Olympia from June 13th to 15th, the event is designed for people affected by allergies, sensitive skin and eczema, as well as asthma.
Up to 45 free seminars, led by allergy professionals and diet and lifestyle experts will also be on offer.
Meanwhile, scientists from the University of Chicago recently claimed that they had found a gene variant which increases susceptibility to asthma.
Researchers claimed the finding "may have important implications in the early identification of, susceptibility to, and prevention and treatment of asthma".
According to Asthma UK, 5.2 million people in the country are currently receiving treatment for the disease.
Please click here for advice on UK life insurance, life insurance policies and a life insurance quote.
06 June 2008 17:52:46
A team of researchers that undertook a study of children who had been given a jab for a deadly virus have discovered that their immunity may have dropped over time.
The results of the study indicate that teenagers may need a booster dose of the meningitis C vaccine to give them full immunity.
Of the 1,000 children involved in the study, more than 20 per cent appeared to be inadequately protected when they were tested five years after being vaccinated.
Those that were ten years old or more when they were given the vaccine were found to have full immunity five years later.
Children that were aged between six and eight when they were given the vaccine, did not have sufficient protection in more than 20 per cent of cases.
Study leader, Dr Matthew Snape, said: "Over the next few years children who were immunised between the ages of one and six will be entering adolescence and it's important to maintain immunity to meningitis C in this age group."
Routine immunisation for meningitis C was introduced in 1999 and before that up to 78 children a year died as a result of contracting the infection.
30 July 2008 17:22:20
Cases of acute sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have significantly increased in the last ten years, according to latest research.
Figures have revealed that there were 22,906 cases of acute STDs in 2007, which is a rise of seven per cent on the previous year.
The number of men infected every year has increased 102 per cent to 12,712, with the total for women rising to 10,194.
The Scottish Conservative health spokesperson Mary Scanlon said that the figures showed a "shocking and dramatic increase".
This shocking data may encourage more people to take out life insurance in order to cover themselves and their families in the worst case scenario.
Research shows that the number of syphilis cases has risen in the last ten years from eight in 1998 to 249 last year.
Chlamydia infections increased the most from 1,770 in 1996 to 9,461 last year, with HIV cases almost trebling in the same period.
This follows news that sex and relationships education could begin at an earlier age in primary schools in order to tackle the numbers of STDs and teenage pregnancies in the UK.