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Australia: plain packag...

04th 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 packaging with few...
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Denmark: New research c...

25th June, 2010
A new research centre, focusing on patient education, prevention and health promotion, opened in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 11 June. The Steno Health Promotion Centre, part of the Steno Diabetes Centre (owned by Novo Nordisk A/S), will initiate research projects to generate new knowledge...
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Insurer incentive to sh...

29th April, 2010
As private health insurers struggle with growing claims for hospital treatment for obesity such as laparoscopic gastric band surgery, insurers in Australia are giving cash bonuses to overweight people to encourage them to lose weight. Overweight individuals can receive up to Aus$350...
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UnitedHealth and YMCA t...

15th April, 2010
UnitedHealth Group is one of the United States’ largest health insurers, is launching two new schemes that, it hopes, will stop the spiral of medical claims by people with type 2 diabetes, who now number 25 million in the US, with an additional 60 million at high risk of developing...
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Calorie label requireme...

26th March, 2010
The new US health bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, includes a requirement that restaurant chains that have more than 20 or more restaurants will have to show calorie counts (and the calorie guideline daily amount) on menus. The effects are expected to be felt...
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PepsiCo: global health ...

23rd March, 2010
PepsiCo  has made a number of health-related commitments this month, which have been welcomed as positive steps by many health experts. First, on 16 March it announced that it is voluntarily adopting a new global policy to stop sales of full-sugar soft drinks to primary and secondary...
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Eye health...

04th January, 2010
People with diabetes may soon be able to wear contact lenses that continuously alert them to variations in their glucose levels by changing colours – replacing the need to routinely draw blood throughout the day. The non-invasive technology, developed by Chemical and Biochemical...
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Diabetes in Australia t...

28th October, 2009
 The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling is predicting that the prevalence of type 2 diabetes will almost double in the next 40 years to 1.6 million people – by which time the disease will be costing Aus$14 billion per year. Complications arising from the disease...
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Healthy Weight Commitme...

05th October, 2009
More than 40 retailers, NGOs and food and drink manufacturers in the United States have launched the ‘Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation’, described as ‘a national, multi-year effort designed to help reduce obesity – especially childhood obesity – by 2015’. It seeks...
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US: pressure builds for...

02nd October, 2009
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine (‘The public health and economic benefits of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages’, Brownell et al., 19 September) has added to the calls for taxing high-sugar drinks, noting that ‘The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has...
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