An International Conference on Prehypertension and Cardio Metabolic Syndrome is being held in Vienna on 24-27 February 2011. The focus of the conference is broad, examining the public-health impact, identification, etiology and pathogenesis of prehypertension as well as on intervention...

The main message of this year’s World Stroke Day is that ‘everyone can do something about stroke’. More information can be found at http://www.world-stroke.org/wsd/ Individuals can: Find out their stroke risk Check or review their lifestyle Measure their blood pressure Learn...

 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...

China ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2006, but Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu recently admitted that China is making only ‘slow progress’ in implementing it. Tobacco output has increased by 18.4% between 2004 and 2008, with the tobacco industry encouraged...