According to the landmark Barbados Diabetes Reversal Study, a combination of diet and exercise can lead to people with Type 2 Diabetes coming off medication and maintaining low blood sugar, effectively meaning that it could be possible to put Type 2 Diabetes into remission.
For the first time, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights takes up tobacco use as a human rights issue during a hearing on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 in Washington DC.
Read our new guest blog on why climate change, urbanisation, and NCDs are inextricably linked. By Isobel Braithwaite (Global Climate and Health Alliance) and Jessica Beagley (NCD Alliance).
More than 300 organisations including NGOs, academic institutions, foundations and patients groups have reacted with alarm at a last minute proposed change to the indicator used to measure financial protection for health under the new Sustainable Development Goals.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will held on 5 April, in Washington DC, a thematic hearing to discuss the issue of the tobacco epidemic in the Americas as a human rights problem.
