Grant brings real-world science to Boston classrooms (USA)

"A new curriculum called The Great Diseases will bring real-world biomedical research to students in three Boston high schools. The result of a collaboration between scientists from Tufts University School of Medicine and teachers from the Boston Public Schools, the curriculum presents current threats to global health through laboratory learning, multimedia, and case-based studies. Funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, the curriculum is designed to increase science literacy and generate enthusiasm for the life sciences among high school students. The curriculum will be taught to 11th and 12th graders at Madison Park Technical and Vocational High School, Boston Latin School, and Boston Latin Academy. Students will investigate diseases in five modules: infectious disease, cancer, metabolic disease, neurological disease, and cardiovascular disease" - EurekAlert

Hypertension Summer School 2009

Hypertension Summer School 2009 - 19-25 September, 2009 - Smolenice, Slovakia

Heart Aware Risk Assessment

The University of Miami Health System invites you to take this complimentary 7 minute test to determine your risk for cardiovascular disease

Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity

Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Illinois has opened a center to study the causes of obesity and find new ways to treat it. In a major initiative aimed at addressing a local and national health epidemic, the Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity will aim at treatment, research, education and advocacy. "This is the major epidemic of our time," said Dr. Lewis Landsberg, founder and director of the center told The Chicago Tribune. "Obesity and its complications threaten to replace smoking-related diseases as the pre-eminent health problem that we face." Obesity has root causes that are evolutionary, biological, psychological, sociological, economic and political, Landsberg said. More than one-third of U.S. adults and about 17 percent of children and adolescents have a body mass index that qualifies them as obese, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports

Ecgskills.net

"Ecgskills.net is an online training resource for all healthcare practitioners involved in conducting and interpreting Electrocardiographs (ECG). Whatever your post or grade, ecgskills.net offers detailed training which is tailored to a wide range of healthcare professionals. Ecgskills.net contains detailed modules taking you step by step through each level of training. Using a mix of 3D animation, audio narrative, images, and detailed text, the product incorporates over 300 traces which can be viewed using the unique TraceZoom facility. Ecgskills.net was developed in collaboration with a team of specialists based at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK. All content has been independently verified so you can have confidence in this high quality training resource"

Heart360.org

Track your blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose and other heart disease risk factors at Heart360.org, the American Heart Association's free, password-protected online cardiovascular wellness center

Medical students use Heartworks virtual heart without spilling blood

"It pumps, beats and swells just like the real thing, but a new 'virtual' model of a human heart could improve the quality of training for medical students without a drop of blood being spilled, researchers say. Created by heart specialists from the University College Hospital, London, and computer animation experts, the Heartworks model is a representation of a working heart designed to be viewed from any angle in photorealistic detail. In a teaching context, it will be combined with a mannequin simulator to teach cardiac anatomy and ultrasound heart exams for trainee doctors where no such models previously existed" - Times

Making the Connection

Making the Connection is a program dedicated to the ongoing education of Canadians about the dangers of high cholesterol, and to encouraging Canadians to take action to control high cholesterol to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Making the Connection is a partnership of the Canadian Lipid Nurse Network, the Canadian Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Diabetes Quebec, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Canadian Diabetes Association, Blood Pressure Canada, and Pfizer Canada Inc

Central Minnesota Heart Center Lecture Series

In celebration of the Heart Center's 25th Anniversary, there will be a special lecture series for the community about the past, present and future of cardiac care:
September 8: The Cause & Treatment of Peripheral Artery Disease
October 6: The Prevention of Heart Attacks
November 3: The Cause & Treatment of Heart Attacks