News stories
OxHA's Alliance Alerts provide an insight into major news stories and trends throughout the year, covering all stakeholders – government, business, academia, local communities and others – and all the risk factors and diseases.
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Please note that, from October 2009, the new Alerts have been published on the website of C3 Collaborating for Health (click here >> ).
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To sort by theme, choose from the list in the box on the right. The Alerts on the new site are sorted in the same way, so we hope that you will find it easy to find what you are looking for. In the future, all the Alerts will be brought together on a single site.
- 'Work with heart'
- 27 Sep 2009 | World Heart Day 2009 theme of workplace health
- WHF job opening
- 22 Sep 2009 | Project on reducing CVD through fat substitution
- Worried kids become fatter adults
- 11 Sep 2009 | Emotional anxiety in childhood increases risk of obesity
- Senior vacancies in chronic disease
- 27 Aug 2009 | ICDDR,B and CDC both seeking exceptional candidates
- New research: asthma and waistlines
- 26 Aug 2009 | Women with waist measurement ≥88cm are more at risk
- $13.8m damages to smoker’s daughter
- 25 Aug 2009 | Family wins latest round against Philip Morris
- No tax breaks for tobacco companies
- 20 Aug 2009 | Important regulatory step forward in China
- Calorie counting in hospital cafés
- 14 Aug 2009 | Food choices of employees and visitors influenced by labelling
- Obesity link to debt
- 12 Aug 2009 | Germany: over-indebted are 2.5 times more likely to be obese
- America still on path to obesity
- 10 Aug 2009 | Nationwide survey conducted from 2005-2009 offers stark figures on overweight


