U.S. Worst in World in preventable deaths

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.

If the U.S. health care system performed as well as those of those top three countries, there would be 101,000 fewer deaths in the United States per year, according to researchers writing in the journal Health Affairs.

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Anxiety level raises heart disease risk

ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2008) — We all know that people with a Type A personality and an off-the-charts hostility level may be courting a heart attack. But this might come as a surprise: New research shows that their nervous, socially withdrawn neighbors also have reason to worry.

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Find Red Dress events in your community

Visit the Go Red For Women site and enter your zip code to find local events.

Toni Braxton to kick off February as Heart Month

Singer and actress Toni Braxton is a heart disease survivor. She has teamed up with Campbell’s soup to unveil a new design by Lisa Perry at the Women’s Day Red Dress Awards on January 31, 2008. Campbell’s will auction the dress to raise funds for the American Heart Association.

Go Red with Campbell’s

(read Toni’s story and vote on a dress design)

Here is Lorraine Bracco in the 2007 Campbell’s Dress designed by Michael Vollbracht:

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Campaign News

Diet Coke is partnering with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in the movement to eradicate heart disease as the #1 killer of women.

Read more about NHLBI and partners here.

Coca-Cola’s press release here.