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Looming Redundancy Crisis for House Building Firms
25th May 2008
The Home Builders Federation have warned government ministers that unless action is taken to support the industry, house building companies will have to make sweeping redundancies within their work...
Credit Crunch Hits Income Protection Insurance
24th May 2008
Sales of Income Protection Policies (IPPs) have fallen drastically in last few years, according to new figures released by Swiss Re. The reports, available through the links above, show that the...
Bacterial Meningitis
23rd May 2008
Unlike viral meningitis (which tends to be less severe) bacterial meningitis occurs most commonly in people who live in close quarters to each other, making university students, barracked soldiers and...
UK Citizens Shy Away From Insurance
23rd May 2008
Britons face financial ruin if we were ever to face a natural, or unnatural, disaster of any real magnitude. Aside form the obvious damage to our living environment and economy that a large natural...
Motor Neuron Disease (MND)
22nd May 2008
Motor Neuron Disease (MND) is a disease that is both progressive and neuro-degenerative. This means that it attacks the upper and lower motor neurones within the Central Nervous System. This...
Aphonia - The Complete Loss of Speech
22nd May 2008
Aphonia is when the vocal chords cannot meet together to vibrate when air from the lungs passes between them, meaning that no sounds can be produced and thus no words. Complete speech loss is a...
Deafness
21st May 2008
There are thought to be 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK, with nearly 700,000 of these being profoundly (or completely) deaf. Although people can be born deaf, the most common...
Caffeine and Dementia
21st May 2008
Previous studies that have cited coffee consumption as a potential defence against Alzheimer's disease may be explained by new research published in the excitingly named Journal of Neuroinflamation,...
Strokes
20th May 2008
Strokes happen when normal blood flow to the brain is shut off, starving the brain of oxygen and vital nutrients, and damaging or ultimately even killing brain cells. Every year over 100,000 people...
What About Unemployment Insurance?
20th May 2008
Income protection does not necessarily cover you for unemployment, just absence from an existing job. Many insurance providers can add unemployment cover to your policy for an increase to your...
