Health Minister Edwina Hart will attend the launch of a new initiative to reduce heart disease in Torfaen.
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has awarded £1.5million in funding and resources to Torfaen Local Health Board to tackle heart disease in the area. It comes as part of the health charity’s UK-wide Hearty Lives programme to reduce [...]

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced its selection of Rajiv Kumar, founder and chairman of Shape Up RI and a medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, to receive a Community Health Leaders Award. He is one of 10 extraordinary Americans who received the RWJF honor for 2009 at [...]

The Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) and Kellogg have teamed up to remind Australians about the benefits of breakfast, by launching Australia’s first National Breakfast Week.
Research shows that one in four children and nearly one in four adults skip breakfast despite its health benefits1, according to DAA Spokesperson and Accredited Practising Dietitian [...]

Hebrew SeniorLife has received a $105,000 grant from the Tufts Health Plan Foundation for the expansion and implementation of three evidence-based healthy aging programs designed to disseminate preventive health-related information to seniors in the community.

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about two-thirds of people over the age of 65 have high blood pressure. What’s more, they report that if you haven’t had it by the time you reach age 55, there is a 90 percent chance you will end up with it during your lifetime. It is [...]