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Health Wellness Programs

In Japan, everyone is required to have health insurance. Japan’s health costs are about 8 percent of the GDP, half that of the United States. Traditional food include Tofu, Rice, Fish, & Nori (seaweed) are considered to be key contributors to Japan’s high life expectancy and low obesity rates.

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Worksite Wellness Programs: Fighting Presenteeism

What impact might the following have on job performance? Grandma Betty’s dog needs expensive surgery. Someone thinks they saw your significant other flirting with someone else. You need to find someone to watch your sick child. Partied a little too hard last night. Waiting for your biopsy results.

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Worksite Wellness: A New Attitude

Health Affairs researchers find that health care costs will increase exponentially in the next few decades. Obesity awareness has risen along with heightened awareness of the related health risk factors. Businesses recognize that these factors play significant roles in worksite wellness and associated spending.

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New hope in the discovery of eye disease early

Researchers reported that the new technique of spectral imaging of the retina may help doctors to diagnose glaucoma (cataract on the eye) in the early stages by observing changes in the blood vessels in the eye. The researchers said Heriot Watt University, and who developed it spectral, it may help in diagnosing the disease early. [...]

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Progress in the treatment of new diseases, fertility

Italian researchers investigates progress in attempts to freeze eggs is fertilized artificially in order to T_khasbhe after that. The 68 couples underwent treatment at the hands of Italian doctors through the freezing of unfertilized eggs. And successful treatment in the birth of 13 children. The Egg freezing is not new from a medical point is [...]

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