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Jul 08
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eMindful.com, a leading source of online health and wellness information and education, is teaming up with gBehavior.com, an incentive-based behavior management firm, to create a software and behavior change package that gives employers a significant advantage in achieving healthy behavior change within their organization. Tracking and rewarding employees’ healthy behaviors helps employers cut down on [...]
Jan 02
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In the holiday spirit, GoTrybe.com is giving a gift to area students; one that will keep giving through the end of the school year. GoTrybe is providing free memberships to its Web-based health program for every student and teacher in 17 Northeast Tennessee school districts. Students and teachers will have immediate access to GoTrybe’s online [...]
Nov 24
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Lilly’s Health Education Answers, an interactive online program, has received Health Information Product Certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for the Health Risk Appraisals and Interactive Consumer Health Tools certification options. NCQA is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to providing health care quality information through the Web and the media in order [...]
Nov 04
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A study conducted by Kaiser Permanente Southern California has shown that proactive measures can reduce hip fracture rates by an average of 37.2 percent — and as much as 50 percent — among those at risk. The study was published online on November 3 by The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, a peer-reviewed journal.
The [...]
Nov 02
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Prevention magazine is the country’s most authoritative, trustworthy, and innovative source for practical health, nutrition, and fitness information. Now, its editors bring you a weight-loss plan that’s specifically designed to target your number-one trouble spot: BELLY FAT. For women over 40, belly fat is incredibly stealth and incredibly stubborn. It’s also [...]
Oct 31
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Question: What disease has been diagnosed in more than 600,000 Georgians, could be present in more than 300,000 more, and kills five people every day in Georgia? HIV, cancer, heart disease?
No. The answer is diabetes.
And, new CDC data shows that the rate of diabetes cases in the U.S. has nearly doubled in the past 10 [...]
Oct 31
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Investigators combing the genome in the hope of finding genetic variants responsible for triggering early-onset diabetes may be looking in the wrong place, new research at the Stanford University School of Medicine suggests.
Early-onset diabetes, also known as type-1 diabetes, is an autoimmune disease, caused when the immune system attacks and destroys insulin-producing cells in a [...]
Oct 30
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A new survey of likely voters commissioned by the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease in New Jersey and conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute found that two out of every three of the state’s voters believe that chronic disease costs could lead to a new American economic crisis. The survey was conducted and analyzed [...]
Oct 30
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Convio, Inc. announced its fourth annual client conference, Convio Summit 2009, November 16-18, 2009 in Austin, TX.
Convio Summit brings together many of the world’s leading experts in nonprofit management, fundraising, advocacy, and technology to share experiences, ideas and lessons learned as they work together to reach, inspire and manage people to support nonprofit organizations. [...]
Oct 18
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At the “Celebrating 10 Years With You” conference , hosted by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), the state’s largest health insurer turned the spotlight on the public and private sector successes that have promoted healthy eating and activities for youths and their families across the Commonwealth over the past decade.
BCBSMA Chief Physician [...]
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