Worksite Wellness Programs: Fighting Presenteeism

What impact might the following have on job performance?

  1. Grandma Betty’s dog needs expensive surgery.
  2. Someone thinks they saw your significant other flirting with someone else.
  3. You need to find someone to watch your sick child.
  4. Partied a little too hard last night.
  5. Waiting for your biopsy results. Read More »
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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. Read More »

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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. The researchers presented details of the new technology to the Institute of Physics conference in Glasgow.
It is estimated that the number of visually impaired in the world will arrive in 2020 to about 200 million people, which can be avoided by 80 percent If you use new technology to detect the disease glaucoma early. and spectral imaging technique uses a standard ophthalmoscope, which have been modified so you can capture images of the retina at specific wavelengths. It shows how oxygenated the blood flowing out of the retina. The doctors said that the discovery of the early allows physicians to search for the cause of this problem. Read More »

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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 that doctors are seeking to give birth to living children and rely on freezing embryos because eggs are more vulnerable. Is seeking a team of researchers in Poland to increase the number of eggs that remain intact after freezing . The team froze 737 unfertilized eggs using the same method of slow freezing was used during the cold storage of embryos. Read More »

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