Health
Wearable tech takes aim at health care costs
Stroll around the office or neighborhood six times a day, and earn $1.50 toward your health insurance. Step up activity a bit more and bring the total to $1,400 annually.
Mar 27, 2016
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News tagged with wellness program
Health
Socially vulnerable children improve health knowledge, well-being after residential health education program
A study has followed more than 600 socially vulnerable children who took part in a 10-week residential stay at two Danish charity homes over a 2-year study period. Through a parallel cohort study, the researchers investigated ...
Apr 8, 2024
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Pediatrics
Cycling in school improves teenagers' mental health, but wider social factors may impact benefits
Physical activity has positive effects on mental health and yet, activity rates are declining. This is particularly worrying because the mental well-being of teenagers continues to deteriorate. In the US, one in six school ...
Oct 12, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
World Trade Center attack responders continue to need monitoring of PTSD, cognitive status
Twenty plus years after the September 11 World Trade Center attacks responders who have suffered physical and cognitive illnesses resulting from exposures continue to be monitored by health care providers. Ongoing studies ...
Sep 11, 2023
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Digital nudges encourage more exercise
Text messages, app alerts and emails—so-called "digital nudges"—are effective at pushing us to do things, even exercise. New University of Minnesota research shows these actions used by corporate wellness programs lead ...
Oct 25, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Patients with chronic illnesses from WTC exposures more likely to suffer long COVID
A study of 1,280 patients treated and monitored at the Stony Brook World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program who also contracted COVID-19 reveals that the responders who have suffered from chronic conditions from WTC ...
Jun 14, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Workplace activity programs can help with stress, anxiety and sleep
Physical activity programs at work can have a positive impact on employee well-being, new research shows, and the powerful benefits can be seen in as little as two months.
Mar 1, 2022
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Cardiology
US adults' blood pressure levels increased during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with higher blood pressure levels among middle-aged adults across the U.S., according to new research published today in the American Heart Association's flagship journal Circulation.
Dec 6, 2021
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Health
Survey shows half of all American workplaces offer health and wellness programs
Workplace health promotion programs are increasing in the U.S., according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...
Apr 22, 2019
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Resistance training even as little as once per week benefits older individuals
According to a recent study, resistance training improves the health of over 65-year-olds, and the benefits occur even when training as little as once per week. The benefits include improvements in blood values, muscle strength ...
Feb 27, 2019
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