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SWICA, one of the largest health and accident insurance companies in Switzerland, and DKV Globality, an international health insurance company focusing on expatriates, have signed a cooperation agreement.
Experts have warned that infertility rates are rising faster in developing countries than in developed ones.
The European Scanning Centre in Harley Street has launched the worlds most advanced scanner the new Aquilion ONE CT 640 slice scanner. The Centre is the only independent healthcare site in the UK and Europe to have invested in this £2 million dynamic volume CT scanner, which uses 320 ultra-high ...
A pioneering form of knee surgery has been successfully performed at private hospital, Spire Washington in Sunderland.
Everyone in the UK is entitled to free healthcare on the NHS, covering a wide variety of treatments and conditions. For various reasons, however, many people opt to have private surgery in one of the 230 independent private hospitals in the UK. These provide around 20% of non-urgent surgery in the ...
If you are born with sickle cell anaemia, it is usually diagnosed when you are a child as you start to show symptoms fairly early on. Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited disease; it is passed on from parent to child. If you have two faulty copies of the gene responsible, you will definitely ...
No clinical schizophrenia test that gives a definite diagnosis has yet been approved. It is therefore not currently possible to go along to your GP or to a hospital to have a simple schizophrenia test that can say whether you have this illness or not.
Around 10% of people have kidney disease in the UK. In most cases, kidney disease is mild and causes no symptoms, so it is possible to have some degree of kidney disease without being aware of it.
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