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November 14 was World Diabetes Day (WDD), a worldwide initiative to raise awareness and understanding of the global diabetes pandemic. To mark this event, Andrew Lansley, CBE MP, Secretary of State for Health was principal guest speaker at a meeting bringing together members of the diabetes community as part of a reception focusing on issues currently faced by patients, healthcare professionals, politicians and policy makers throughout the UK. To coincide with this reception, the Merlin Entertainments London Eye was illuminated blue, representing the WDD blue circle logo.

In this year’s Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians, Professor Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University and president of the Academy of Medical Sciences, said that if we were able to redefine disease according to its true causes this would transform our understanding of medicine and improve diagnosis and treatment for patients.

In an unprecedented effort to bring prevention of chronic diseases to the top of the EU agenda, the MEP Heart Group , the MEP Group for Kidney Health , the EU Diabetes Working Group and MEPs Against Cancer have recently organised a joint meeting in the European Parliament, together with representatives of health professionals and health activists at European level.

The number of people diagnosed with diabetes in the UK has increased by more than 150,000 to 2.8 million in the past year, warns leading health charity Diabetes UK.

Patients with epilepsy have an increased mortality rate compared with the general population.

Coffee drinking has been accused of causing palpitations, raising heart rate, blood pressure and causing other cardiovascular adverse effects.

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has welcomed the findings of a paper presented recently at the American Heart Association’s High Blood Pressure Research 2010 Scientific Sessions (HBPR 2010) held in Washington, DC, USA.

Despite the vast majority (91%) of workers believing that it is their employer’s responsibility to create a healthy working environment, nearly a third (32%) of employees feel their workplace actually hinders their ability to lead a healthy lifestyle, according to new independent research commissioned by the World Heart Federation and conducted by Opinion Health.

A new report issued by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), developed in partnership with the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), provides new and expanded criteria to help clinicians optimally select patients who could benefit from cardiac computed tomography (CCT) and inform payers about appropriate clinical scenarios for its use.

On the opening day of the Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology in Beijing the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) took its first step in a new programme of Global Scientific Activities. The GW-ICC will host a one-day ESC educational programme built around highlights from the Society’s annual meeting in Stockholm and this year’s newly published ESC guidelines.