08 Nov 2021
Associate Professor Laurent Billot, Director of the Biostatistics & Data Science Division, talks about the recent establishment of the Global Data Analytics Program at the Institute and the role machine learning can play in improving health outcomes.
08 Nov 2021
08 Nov 2021
New research amongst the world’s biggest consumers of dairy foods has shown that those with higher intakes of dairy fat - measured by levels of fatty acids in the blood - had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those with low intakes.
08 Nov 2021
08 Nov 2021
The George Institute for Global Health has joined more than 300 organizations representing at least 45 million nurses, doctors and health professionals worldwide – about three quarters of the global health workforce – in signing an open letter to the 197 government leaders and national delegations ahead of the UN climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK. The letter warns that the climate cris...
08 Nov 2021
08 Nov 2021
There has been a “positive shift” in inclusive gender practices in COVID-19 vaccine research, but there is still room for improvement, experts say.
08 Nov 2021
08 Nov 2021
Children’s HeartLink has been partnering with Heart University, a free education resource on heart disease, to develop a lecture series on pediatric cardiac care in low-resource countries.
08 Nov 2021
08 Nov 2021
Weekly consumption of ultra-processed food is linked with an increased risk of heart disease even in those with an otherwise healthy diet, according to research presented at European Society of Cardiology Congress.
08 Nov 2021
08 Nov 2021
A new report from a coalition of health organisations and experts has called on the Government to take action to reverse the increasingly high levels of excess weight in the population. No other country in the world has managed this across the population to date.
08 Nov 2021
08 Nov 2021
British Heart Foundation is joining other healthcare organisations and ambulance services in urging people to learn CPR for Restart a Heart Day in light of worrying research that shows that over a third (38%) of UK adults have never undertaken any form of CPR training.
08 Nov 2021
08 Nov 2021
British Heart Foundation entered into a six-year partnership with the Crick, which will support collaboration on cardiovascular research, translation and training amongst other activities. There are 7.6 million people living with heart and circulatory diseases in the UK, and tragically, 450 people die every day as a result. To further fundamental understanding of heart development, we are pr...
08 Nov 2021
08 Nov 2021
Raymond Xiong writes about his inspiration behind creating and sharing MECA exercises, which incorporate music, gymnastics and cognitive activity, to improve the wellbeing of people living with dementia.
08 Nov 2021
08 Nov 2021
People living with dementia and carers from all over the world have shared their experience of the journey to diagnosis for this year's World Alzheimer's Month campaign.
08 Nov 2021
Fact sheet
08 Nov 2021
Commercial determinants of health are the conditions, actions and omissions by corporate actors that affect health. Commercial determinants arise in the context of the provision of goods or services for payment and include commercial activities, as w...
