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 and policymakers....

Recent research has suggested that people who regularly work overtime and work for 10 to 11 hours a day may increase their risk of heart disease by nearly two-thirds. The findings, published in the European Heart Journal, are based on a study of 6000 British civil servants. Doctors...

Danish research in Occupational and Environmental Medicine came to the conclusion that work pressure has a greater effect on young women than those in their 50s and 60s. A study of more than 12,000 nurses aged between 45 and 64 was conducted, where researchers asked them about pressure...

A new bike access law has taken effect in New York City, requiring employers to allow employees to use elevators to bring their bicycles inside to store them. This law was passed to encourage bike commuting by eliminating theft of bikes parked on the street. Encouraging physical forms...

Professor Jerry Morris, who has died at the age of 99, was the first to discover the clear link between lack of physical activity and heart disease. In the late 1940s, Morris began a study comparing rates of heart attack among people of different occupations, as heart attack rates...

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...