The Lancet recently published a commentary that provides a succinct outline of how the global NCD community should move forward now that the UN High-level Meeting on NCDs has passed...
The weekend before the UN Meeting and during the Meeting itself, we saw organizations and governments from all over the world expressing their concern for the global burden of NCDs and committing themselves to finding solutions...
Some press coverage on the UN High-level Meeting...
ProCor is this month celebrating a 15th anniversary. In this time there have been tremendous changes in the global landscape of cardiovascular prevention...
The Lown Foundation just concluded a major conference called "Avoiding Avoidable Care". This was an invitation only gathering of leaders in American medicine focused on the causes and cures for the large amount of unnecessary care that occurs in the US health care system...
The World Congress of Cardiology in Dubai occurred last week. Below are some highlights of the research presented during WCC...
Dr. Collins Kokuro presented a paper on the Ashanti-ProCor project's findings to the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso...
Nearly 20 hours of focus group discussion and key information interviews, conducted in November 2008, have been transcribed and are being coded prior to qualitative analysis. Additional discussions with pharmacy and medical herbalist students (in conjunction with KNUST) are being planned for September-October 2009; and focus groups with pharmacists and nursing students will take place in November...
"Modern medicine, even at a basic level, has largely failed the majority of the world's population. The human consequences are likely to be massive: death and harm caused directly by health workers; and failure to prevent deaths that are readily avoided by appropriate interventions."
The NCD Alliance is calling on WHO member states at the World Health Assembly later this month to adopt global NCD targets, establish a global coordinating platform for NCDs, and frame NCDs in the larger context of global development...
The British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group and University of Oxford are hosting an accredited short course on prevention strategies for NCDs on 15-20 July 2012 in Oxford, UK...
The Medical Library Association of Nigeria is launching its official journal, Journal of Health Information, and will focus medical librarianship as well as broader health informatics...
