CDC Foundation’s Live to the Beat campaign is launching a “Heart2Heart Challenge” to encourage Black women to give themselves permission to prioritize self-care for their own heart health.
To increase understanding of cardiovascular disease, the CDC Foundation and Amgen are partnering on a new global cardiovascular health initiative to support independent epidemiological research by the University of Oxford and technological and evaluation research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), African-American men are 25 percent more likely to die from heart disease, compared to non-Hispanic white men. To help address this health disparity, the CDC Foundation is partnering with Pfizer and Quest Diagnostics to launch the Million Hearts® “Healthy is Strong” initiative.
Business Pulse: Heart Health shares how the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works to protect Americans’ heart health, a strategy that can improve worker productivity and lower healthcare costs.
Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., Dr.P.H., today received the Fries Prize for Improving Health for his first discoveries of the lifesaving benefits of aspirin.
To provide a health communication campaign related to heart disease education and prevention in the United States with the goal of informing Americans ages 35-64 on the risk factors of heart disease and stroke and inspiring action.
To identify high-impact language, concepts, and narratives that will inform how public health can communicate hypertension control messaging to private sector employers, their workforce, and related beneficiaries.
To engage individuals, health care providers and community organizations to support and connect individuals with services that support heart-healthy behaviors, catalyzing health care system quality improvement and engaging individuals in adopting small steps to improve their cardiovascular health.
