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Reaching a Consensus

27 July 2012
In May 2012, 65 leading economists (including four Nobel Prize winners) came together for the third global ‘Copenhagen Consensus’, with the aim of identifying the best ways to allocate funding to tackle 10 of the biggest challenges facing the world....
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NICE Guidance on type 2 diabetes

26 July 2012
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has published new public health guidance on risk identification and interventions for individuals at high risk of type 2 diabetes (click here >> for the guidance). It is aimed at a wide range...
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Obesity and CVD

24 July 2012
The links between obesity and CVD are well documented, and this study from The Netherlands, published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, addressed how common the risk factors are among severely obese children. These risk factors do not usually cause noticeable...
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Underestimating a killer

19 July 2012
The Lancet this week (19 July) is devoted to the enormous benefits of physical activity for health – and how its impact is often both underestimated and underappreciated by the public and physicians alike. As the opening editorial states, it ‘is not about sport...
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Panacea or excuse?

18 July 2012
The polypill – a single pill combining a number of generic drugs (including, for example, blood-pressure-lowering drugs, a statin, folic acid and aspirin) – was first suggested in an article in the BMJ nearly a decade ago. Now, the first results of trials on...
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Exercise as medicine

In recent years, research has shown that exercise is of great benefit to cancer patients. However, often cancer patients continue to be advised to rest to recuperate following diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Lifestyle advice for preventing chronic disease urges...
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Fighting back against food deserts

16 July 2012
As we have written previously, food deserts – urban areas where access to affordable, good-quality fresh foods is limited – are all too common in areas where poverty is high (for example, C3 news alert here >>) Often, major grocery retailers have abandoned...
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Plain tobacco packaging

15 July 2012
An advertisement published in The Economist of 14 July has questioned the effectiveness of plain packaging for cigarettes. The piece, funded by the tobacco firm Japan Tobacco International, claims that there is a lack of evidence in support of plain packaging and...
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Helping those at high risk

13 July 2012
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Evidence (NICE) has published a set of Public Health Guidance on ‘Preventing type 2 diabetes: risk identification and interventions for individuals at high risk’ (click here >>). The Guidance is aimed...
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Physical education in US schools

12 July 2012
In 1991, the paper Physical Education’s Role in Public Health was launched to great acclaim in the United States. In the June edition of Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, many of the original authors of this study decided to take a retrospective look...
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