National health initiative DRIVE4COPD today announced the launch of its new Ambassador Program, which gives fans the opportunity to join their favorite celebrity in a common cause: raising awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The Ambassador Program marks the beginning of the Great American Screen Off, a nationwide push this fall to screen Americans for their risk of COPD at DRIVE4COPD.COM. Fans can now enter the DRIVE4COPD Celebrity Race Team’s ongoing competition to see who can screen the most people.
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Starting in November, fans of BC and Goody's Headache Powders and country music superstar Trace Adkins and racing legend Richard Petty, will have another opportunity to help honor and empower wounded service members as well as children with chronic medical conditions. Utilizing the power of Facebook, fans can go to BC and Goody's Facebook pages to help raise funds for Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) and Victory Junction. For every BC or Goody's page
When it comes to their health, nearly 90 percent of Americans lack the literacy skills to understand basic medical information and instruction. Low literacy has been linked to poor health outcomes such as higher rates of hospitalization and less frequent use of preventive services. A few quick minutes with a physician is not sufficient for most of us to understand a complex or chronic medical condition and how we can manage it. But new research indicates that video storytelling can be an effective way to educate people about health conditions - and watching others share their health stories can empower people to take control of their own health.
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New research released today to mark European Week Against Pain reveals that, in more than half of cases, peoples’ levels of pain across Europe are not being adequately assessed.
More than half (52%) of European primary care physicians use no form of assessment tool to measure peoples’ levels of pain despite chronic pain affecting 1 in 52 adults across Europe. A study in Finland found that pain is also the reason for 40% of patient visits to a primary care physician each year, with approximately 20% of these patients having experienced their pain for more than 6 months.
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Chronic illness is a life-long journey, oftentimes a very lonely one. Most people do not understand what you are going through, even when they really try - and most who have never experienced it don't try to understand at all. The Unchargeables is a place where you can come for support, a place where everybody understands, where we celebrate the smallest victories together. We are a group of people from all over the world who all share similar experiences; we call ourselves Chargies. Here you find yourself in a place without judgement, where we have compassion for each other. We support and uplift each other to make this journey a little less lonely. There is strength in shared experiences and words of support and hope.
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The largest-ever morbi-mortality study of treatments for chronic heart failure has shown that adding the specific heart rate lowering agent Procoralan® (ivabradine) to standard therapy significantly reduces the risk of death and hospitalisation for heart failure.1 Results from this new study, SHIFT (Systolic Heart Failure Treatment with the If Inhibitor Ivabradine Trial), were presented today at the European Society of Cardiology1 in Stockholm and published in The Lancet.2
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A new survey from the nonprofit Gout & Uric Acid Education Society (GUAES) highlights an alarming awareness gap among Americans regarding the risk factors for gout, a chronic, potentially disabling form of arthritis which now affects an estimated 8.3 million Americans. Among the survey findings are that only one in 10 Americans correctly cited cardiovascular disease as a risk factor for gout, while only one in three Americans correctly reported that obesity is a risk factor, and less than one in five reported that diabetes and kidney disease are risk factors. GUAES released the survey findings in advance of its annual Gout Awareness Day on May 22.
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Ridgefield, CT, September 14, 2011 – Landmark public health campaign DRIVE4COPD today announced the unveiling of 24M: The DRIVE4COPD Monument, a visual representation of the impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the United States. Reaching 14 feet at its highest peak and spanning half a football field, this first-of-its-kind monument comprised of 24 large-scale pinwheels to represent the 24 million Americans who may be living with COPD, was designed by internationally renowned artist and sculptor Michael Kalish.
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Today, politicians, patients and health and work experts of the Fit for Work Europe Coalition added their voices to national advocates from across Europe for their countries to take bold steps to reduce the staggering €240 billion economic burden of chronic musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) to European society.
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