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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A senior Pacific health lecturer says non-communicable diseases (NCDs) can trap families in "cycles of poverty".
A health survey found almost all adults in Fiji aged between 18 and 69 - 98.5 percent - have at least one risk factor for NCDs, while nearly half are living...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pacific Island governments are increasingly imposing taxes on unhealthy foods as they battle a non-communicable disease crisis, a New Zealand study shows.
Absent from the list is American Samoa, along with the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Kiribati, Palau, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The alarming rate of the spread of cancer and other prevalent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has prompted the Senate President to call for more awareness.
Senate President, Tuaolo Manaia Fruean introduced a resolution on Friday to highlight the alarming rate of cancer...
Geneva, SWITZERLAND — A quarter of the world’s adults are not getting enough exercise, putting them at risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia, and some cancers – and there has been no improvement over the past 15 years.
This is according to a global study conducted by the World...