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Your regular news update on what’s happening with fixed dose combination drugs (‘polypills’) for preventing cardiovascular events To subscribe to Polypill News and receive this newsletter direct, please email [email protected] Group formed to improve access to polypill The World Heart Federation has assembled a group of people—physicians, researchers, economists, policymakers, industry experts and others—who are […]

World Heart Federation member the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has today released the results of a survey of 500 heart attack survivors. This found that 80% did not recognize that they were having a heart attack, with around 35% putting their symptoms down to indigestion. Simon Gillespie, Chief Executive, British Heart Foundation: “It’s extremely alarming […]

Today, the World Heart Federation advocacy team attended the launch event for World Health Day, which saw the WHO issue a call to action on diabetes. The launch took place in the Executive Board room at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Director-General of the WHO Dr Margaret Chan opened the event […]

The theme for today’s World Health Day 2016 is diabetes, a non-communicable disease (NCD) that is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and has a direct impact on over 400 million people globally. The World Health Organisation has called for governments around the world to act to ensure people can make healthier food choices. […]

Scientific programme now online! The complete list of WCC sessions is now available here. Browse through hundreds of talks from world leaders in heart health, including Presidents of national and regional organizations, such as Marc Creager from the American Heart Association and Bongani Mayosi from the Pan-African Society of Cardiology. Discover highlights, […]

The World Health Organization is calling on countries and partners to ‘Unite to End Tuberculosis. With 43 million lives saved since 2000, there has been significant progress in the battle against TB but more can be done. Ending TB by 2030 is a target of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) […]

with Dr Khawer Naveed Siddiqui, President Affiliated to the World Heart Federation since 1994 and founded by Dr Flavio Burgarella, Heart Friends Around The World (HFATW) is an international movement to create awareness about heart diseases in the most affected countries.The organization brings together physicians, cardiologists and patients worldwide, predominantly from low- and middle-income […]

The new point-of-sale display ban, passed by the Singapore Parliament on 14 March, will take effect after a one-year grace period and aims to ‘de-normalise’ tobacco use and to reduce the exposure, particularly of young people, to the advertising effect of tobacco product displays. This positive step follows similar successful display bans which have been […]

On 3-4 March, over 200 leaders from the business, humanitarian, health and academic sectors gathered at an event organized by the Global Partnership for Humanitarian Impact and Innovation (GPHI2) in Lausanne. The aim was to find innovative solutions to common challenges around health care in fragile environments. There is a globalization of vulnerabilities, which means […]

Yesterday, UK Chancellor of the Exchequor George Osborne announced plans for a sugar tax to be introduced in 2015, with the £520 million levy to be spent on doubling the amount of money spent in schools. “The World Heart Federation supports the increased taxes on the foods and beverages that can lead to obesity, which […]

On 05-07 March, the World Heart Federation’s (WHF) Policy and Advocacy team travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to take part in the 4th All Africa Workshop on Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease. The Policy and Advocacy team and WHF member Elizabeth Gatumia (Kenyan-Heart National Foundation) stand next to the ratified AU Communiqué on […]