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Proposing action for the UN Summit

22 March 2011
The UN Summit on NCDs (to be held in September) will result in an Outcomes Document on action on NCDs and on 22 March, the NCD Alliance launched its own version – a Proposed Outcomes Document (click here >> ) – which consolidates the ‘asks’ of the...
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15000aday.org

18 March 2011
Around the world, 15,000 people die from the effects of tobacco – most are smokers, but a sizeable number suffer diseases caused by second-hand smoke. 15000aday.org is a new website set up by the World Lung Foundation, which highlights this terrible toll (the...
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Endemic conditions among the bottom billion

04 March 2011
Although much of the world often thinks of chronic disease as a lifestyle-choice problem of wealthy nations, the endemic disease profile among the world’s poorest is quite different. In an effort to provide a more realistic portrait of chronic illness among those...
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World Bank: threat of NCDs in S. Asia

11 February 2011
‘South Asia is at a crossroads’, the World Bank states in a new report, Capitalizing on the Demographic Transition: Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases in South Asia (click here >>), with the threat of NCDs seemingly rising inexorably. The report looks...
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Heart disease and cancer days

04 February 2011
4 February is the American Heart Association’s ‘Go Red for Women’ day, on which women and men alike are encouraged to wear red to raise awareness of heart disease among women. The money raised on the day helps support the AHA’s efforts to...
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Heart and stroke: top 10 of 2010

22 December 2010
Since 1996, the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association have put together a yearly list of the top 10 key scientific findings in CV and stroke research – this year, for the first time, providing a list for each area, rather than combining the...
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Spotlight on MENA diabetes

15 December 2010
On 12 and 13 December, the Diabetes Leadership Forum was held in Dubai, where C3 Collaborating for Health joined several hundred experts from the region to discuss the worrying growth in diabetes and obesity in the region – 26 million (about one in five)...
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World Diabetes Day 2010

14 November 2010
World Diabetes Day – 14 November – was started by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization to raise global awareness of diabetes, and mark the birthday of Frederick Banting who was instrumental in the discovery of...
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An important week for NCDs

11 November 2010
A series of meetings have been held this week in London that highlighted both the importance of chronic diseases and the urgency about planning for the UN High-level Meeting (’Summit’) that is to be held in 10 months’ time in New York. The Commonwealth...
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‘One in Six’

29 October 2010
29 October is World Stroke Day, and this year its message is clear: one in six people worldwide will have a stroke at some point during their life, and someone dies from a stroke every six seconds. The ‘One in Six’ campaign has been launched by the World Stroke...
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