C3 Collaborating for Health believes that only by working together can we make it easier to be healthy.

CVD prevention can widen inequalities

25 August 2010
To prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD), primary prevention aims to tackle and reduce the major risk factors that are related to tobacco control and diet. One approach to achieving this reduction is an approach that tackles those at high risk. Usually this involves...
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Staggering toll of cancer

20 August 2010
A new report, by the American Cancer Society and LIVESTRONG, states that ‘for the first time, research has shown that cancer has the most devastating economic impact of any cause of death in the world’, nearly 19 per cent higher than heart disease....
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UK: Drop in teenage smokers

19 August 2010
Research conducted by University College London and published in the journal Addiction has found that the number of 16- and 17-year-old smokers has dropped since it became illegal to sell cigarettes to under-18s in the UK. Researchers found the number of smokers...
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2010 Louise Lown Heart Hero Award

18 August 2010
The 2010 Louise Lown Heart Hero Award was this year awarded to the Olavarria: Tobacco Free City programme. Olavarria is a city in the centre of the Buenos Aires province. The programme is a city-run, community-focused tobacco advocacy, education and support scheme,...
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International Health Promotion Awards

16 August 2010
The first International Health Promotion Awards Symposium will be held in Rome on 6–7 December 2010, to highlight best practice and reward innovation in health. There are two major categories, which will be judged by an expert panel of health care professionals...
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UK/India: joint funding call to combat NCDs

10 August 2010
The UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) have announced a commitment jointly to fund research into NCDs, focusing particularly on practical interventions to prevent and treat the diseases. The MRC’s collaboration...
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Pre-hypertension conference, Vienna 2011

09 August 2010
An International Conference on Prehypertension and Cardio Metabolic Syndrome is being held in Vienna on 24-27 February 2011. The focus of the conference is broad, examining the public-health impact, identification, etiology and pathogenesis of prehypertension as...
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Large waist mortality risk

A US study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, has found that men and women with large waists are at an increased risk of dying young, regardless of their BMI. For nine years the researchers followed more than 100,000 men and women aged 50 and older,...
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Australia: plain packaging for cigarettes

04 August 2010
Australia has revealed plans to be the first nation to outline plans to force tobacco companies to use plain packaging with graphic health warnings. The initiative is scheduled for 1 July 2012, from which point tobacco products will have to be sold in the plain...
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High youth cholesterol…

03 August 2010
UCSF researchers conducted a longitudinal 20-year study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which found that young adults in their 20s and 30s with even mildly elevated cholesterol levels are more likely to develop coronary artery calcium and atherosclerosis...
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