Health food store recommendations could be bad for your health
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... by restricting access to care is offset by higher employee turnover costs. The study appears in the September...ssociated with a lower probability that a disabled employee would return to work. However, employees with carve-out benefits plans were on disability for shorte...Nation's two largest medical specialty groups issue migraine treatment guidelines
...n. Migraines are said to be a significant cause of employee absences and lowered productivity. Migraines can sometimes be prevented or attacks made less frequent. Likely candidates for preventive therapy are patients who have two or more attacks a month producing disability lasting three or more days per mon...Physical, mental health illnesses hinder low-income families' economic security
...urther reforms in welfare assistance, Medicaid and employee health insurance benefits."...Migraines cost employers millions in productivity, but interventions can help
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... with academic faculty on the relationship between employee health and well-being and work-related productivity, the institute will help inform decision makers in both the private and public health sectors on these issues," says Ron Z. Goetzel, currently vice president of consulting and applied research for M...Scientific society recognizes womens contributions to the Manhattan Project
...ntist of the X-ray Diffraction Section and 56-year employee of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Personal recollections of my time on the Manhattan Project. The presenter worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago in 1943 and will convey personal thoughts regarding the early co...Mayo Clinic Health Management Resources offers employee e-health management case study
... health information resource. Roches commitment to employee health is based on the belief that helping employe...called "Choosing Health" that includes a number of employee health components such as a fitness center, nurse line, disease management and e-health Web site. It...High turnover rate may undermine HIV/hemophilia care
... job task, is the more salient factor in enhancing employee retention among those who work only with the hemop...pational stress, professional support, burnout and employee retention. Grappling with the problem of high staff turnover is not only important for general staff......ments. The analysis looked at monthly spending per employee on new and existing drugs. No matter the type of insurance, overall drug costs and spending per employee increased by a sizable percentage in the two years examined. The employer's traditional fee-for-serv......70s. By the 1980s, employers were spending $5 per employee on work-place wellness programs and today they're shelling out $60 per employee for year-round programs that range from smoking cessation programs to lessons in warding off stress....Smoking restrictions in restaurants are not bad for business
...conomic impact of impending legislation regulating employee tobacco use and smoking in restaurants. Altogether 600 firms and 401 restaurants took part. The proposed legislation required the establishment of designated smoking areas, with direct evacuation of smoke outside the building in all firms and restaur...Wake Forest professor to evaluate managed care patient protection laws
...ve interviews with regulators, consumer advocates, employee benefit managers, insurance agents, and private lawyers and with managers and lawyers at national, regional and local health plans. These two efforts will occupy much of the study's second year. In the third year, the projects will be analyz......ce and emergency medical testing to detect driver, employee and patient impairment. LifePoint licensed the patented flow immunosensor technology from the Naval Research Laboratories and owns patented and proprietary technologies on using saliva as a non-invasive test specimen. The technologies combined in t...Job complexity, simplicity linked to substance use
...hen they failto meet the jobs' demands." To reduce employee substance use, Oldham and Gordon suggest that workers'cognitive abilities should be assessed systematically. Employers can thenconsider reassigning them or restructuring their jobs to match their abilities....Health plays a crucial role in California labor market, according to UCSF researchers
...-year job; 2) working the day shift as a permanent employee 3) being paid by the firm at which the work is done; 4) and not working from home or as an independent contractor. Researchers found 22 percent of workers have traditional employment and job tenure of at least three years, and only eight percent hav...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...ically. Kate Bird is a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center employee who has seen the value ofearly prenatal diagnostics from several angles. As a cytogenetics technologist,she performs chromosome analysis on amniotic fluid cells and CVS cells. And as amom in the over-35 age category who is now pregnant with her secon......ehavior." "The experimental interventions involved employee advisory boards who workedwith researchers to identify ways to improve their co-workers' dietary habits,"said Biener. "For example, they encouraged cafeteria managers and vendingmachine companies to include more low-fat, high-fiber snacks among thei...