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NCDs in China

27 July 2011
A new report from the World Bank, Towards a Healthy and Harmonious Life in China: Stemming the Rising Tide of Non-communicable Diseases, feeds into the Ministry of Health’s three-step process to tackle NCDs, step two of which is implementing analytical studies...
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Risk factors and Alzheimer’s

20 July 2011
Evidence is growing that tackling the major risk factors for NCDs such as CVD, type 2 diabetes and cancer can also greatly impact the rising tide of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. According to research that analysed data from around the...
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IDRC: new NCD programme

19 July 2011
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada has just announced the launch of its newly approved Non-Communicable Disease Prevention program (NCDP), which will run from 2011 to 2016. Its goal is to general knowledge that will inform low-cost policies...
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Tobacco: WHO urges action

09 July 2011
19 countries – now including Mexico, Peru and the United States – now require tobacco packaging to include large, graphic health messages to dissuade people both from taking up the habit and from continuing to smoke. This statistic is provided in a new report...
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Battle looms over packaging

28 June 2011
Something is rattling the tobacco companies: Australia is planning to introduce a requirement for entirely plain, unbranded packaging for cigarettes from the start of 2010, the first country to do so. Philip Morris International, the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes...
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Civil society meeting on NCDs

17 June 2011
Today, 16 June, has been the interactive hearing on NCDs, bringing together civil society organisations from around the world in the hall of the General Assembly at the United Nations. C3 attended the event, which took the form of an introductory and closing session...
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Heart attacks fall dramatically in London

09 June 2011
Over the last 20 years, rates of heart attack have fallen by an impressive 74 per cent, according to a new report in the European Heart Journal. The data has come from the Whitehall II study (of over 9,000 London-based civil servants), and showed that rates fell...
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World No Tobacco Day

31 May 2011
All across the world today people will give up tobacco products in recognition of World No Tobacco Day.  The World Health Assembly passed a resolution establishing the Day in 1988 in an effort to draw attention to the dangers of tobacco use and the linkage between...
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Banning smoking at work

18 May 2011
A nationwide ban on smoking at work was introduced in Ireland in 2004 and, in the first study of its kind, this has had a positive effect on respiratory illness in the adult population. The study from Dublin, which was presented at the  American Thoracic Society...
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$50 fine if you don’t diet or quit?

17 May 2011
The US state of Arizona is considering an annual $50 fine for recipients of Medicaid (the national welfare scheme that provides health care for those unable to afford private health insurance) if they do not follow health regimes developed by the patient and their...
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