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Office workers that works for hours behind the desk, is easily experienced deadly blood clot, than an airplane passenger who traveled long distances. Thus the results of studies that published some time ago, in Wellington, New Zealand.

Research that has been done by Professor Richard Beasley from the Medical Research Institute in Wellington found that 65% of hospital patients who suffered “deep vein thrombosis” (DVT) were office workers who spend time in front of the computer.

DVT is the formation of blood clots on the inside veins, most often in the legs. That clots can be moved to the heart, lungs or brain, causing chest pain, shortness of breath or even death from heart attack or stroke.

Thalassaemia is a genetic disorder, so it can be derived from parents to child, although not all their child. For married couples that in fact each had a gene carrier of Thalassaemia, it will have the possibility to have a child who had Thalassaemia by 25%.

According to WHO in 1994, the number of carriers or people with Thalassaemia gene carriers around the world are reached up to 4.5% or approximately 250 million people, where 300 thousand children who are suffering from Thalassaemia are born each year and from that number it’s about 60-70 thousand of them are suffering Thalassaemia major which is required continuously blood transfusion since have been diagnose even though for a baby. And this number has increased so that based on data from WHO, the number of carriers in 2001 reached up to 7% of the world population.

So to increase public awareness about Thalassaemia, it is held the press conference about Thalassaemia Ambassador or Ambassador of Thalasaemia. Thalassaemia ambassador program is a program that aims to educate from patient to patient so as to increase the life expectancy of the people with Thalassaemia.

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Asthma disease causes swelling and inflammation in the respiratory tract that leads to the lungs. When asthma relapse, the airways become narrow and tight. So that air can’t pass and make it difficult to breathe. This is also called a asthma attack or exacerbations. Asthma can attack people in various ways. Some people only have asthma attacks during allergy season, or when they breathe cold air, or when they exercise.

Others have many bad attacks that makes them often go to the doctor. Even when you have rare asthma attack, you still have to take care your asthma. The swelling and inflammation in the airways may cause permanent changes in the respiratory tract and harm your lungs.