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Daylight Savings Time – March 8th 2009
With the end of the winter rapidly approaching, we all look forward to lighter evenings, and the additional daylight that the start of Daylight Savings Time, which begins in the United States on March 8th 2009, brings. Around the world an additional 1.5 billion people experience the same seasonal [...]

Who Do Panic Attacks Affect?
Some 2.4 million Americans regularly experience episodes of panic, although the cause of panic attacks can be difficult to diagnose. Panic ‘disorder’ usually involves unexpected and possibly multiple occurences of intense fear which is often accompanied by frightening physical symptoms, including chest pain, dizziness, heart palpitations and shortness of breath. Typically, [...]

If you’ve seen the movie ’snakes on a plane’ you may feel like you never want to fly again. However millions of Americans and people from the rest of the developed world rely on air travel both for business and leisure purposes, and giving up flying is simply not an option for most travellers.
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If you regularly sleep for less than seven and a half hours per night, you may be putting your heart health at risk, especially if you already suffer from high blood pressure, according to a [...]

A United Kingdom patient suffering from arterial disease has become the first person in the country to receive a life saving artery transplant using live human artery tissue flown in specially from the United States.
John Young suffered years of ill health and three major cardiac operations due to suffering from arterial disease which left him [...]

Alcohol – a balanced point of view
Alcohol statisics for the United States make for sobering reading – each year more than 100,000 people die from alcohol related conditions and the effects of alcohol consumption. But is it all bad news where alcohol and heart disease is concerned ?
Every one in the adult population has different alcohol [...]

DVT Definition (Deep Vein Thrombosis)
DVT is a disease of the circulation, often associated with air travel. The medical term for a DVT is a venous thromboembolism. Our blood needs to be able to clot in order to provide the necessary protection for the body against severe loss of blood from an injury to a vein [...]

Definition of Hypertension
Hypertension disease is defined as when a persons blood pressure is constantly higher than the recommended level. The United Kingdom hypertension statistics make for alarming reading, with approximately one quarter of the adult population suffering from this condition, which has been labelled as ‘the silent killer’.
If you have undetected high blood pressure, you [...]