Heart Age Calcualtor now available 19 Aug 2013 | 05:03 pm

President Srinath Reddy writes on heart disease and poverty 7 Aug 2013 | 08:54 am

Measuring the global burden of disease and prevalence of risk factors 7 Aug 2013 | 08:32 am

Research released this month provides additional analysis of data from the 2010 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study.  This analysis illustrates the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD...

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases to fund type 2 diabetes research 7 Aug 2013 | 07:18 am

The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases has launched a call for research proposals on the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes. The focus will be on implementation and intervention research in...

United Nations to establish Interagency Task Force on NCDs 23 Jul 2013 | 07:41 pm

This week, Member States unanimously adopted ECOSOC resolution E/2013/L23, formally establishing the United Nations (UN) Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseas...

Inaugural NCD Synergies Network Meeting takes place in Rwanda 18 Jul 2013 | 09:48 pm

The Non-communicable Disease (NCD) Synergies Network was created by the Rwanda Ministry of Health and Partners in Health to foster south-south collaboration for tackling NCDs, specifically those of po...

Study shows tobacco control could reduce heart attack in India by 25% 15 Jul 2013 | 05:33 pm

Research by Sanjay Basu, Stanton Glantz, Asaf Bitton and Christopher Millet, published in PLOS Medicine on Tuesday 10 July shows that if additive, 5 tobacco control measures (well-enforced smoke-free ...

WHO releases 2013 Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 13 Jul 2013 | 01:13 am

The World Health Organization (WHO) report presents the status of the MPOWER measures, with country-specific data updated and aggregated through 2012. In addition, the report provides a special focus ...

Caroline Seger - "Heart" of Sweden women's national football team at UEFA Women's EURO 9 Jul 2013 | 01:28 pm

World Heart Federation announces its Champion Advocates Programme to engage physicians and journalists in the "25x25" fight against cardiovascular dis... 12 Jun 2013 | 12:36 pm

The Champion Advocates Programme is supported by an educational grant from AstraZeneca