POSTS TAGGED AS wellness

Online Student Health and Wellness

It’s still a little surprising to find that telecommunication companies have healthcare services divisions, but now that’s also the [MORE]

European Union’s Ambient Assisted Living Program Report

With case studies, statistics, and interviews, this interim report about technology-assisted eldercare covers developments for the past two years.  The [MORE]

Coupons in Consumer Healthcare

Groupon, Foursquare, Scoutmob and Living Social are among a growing number of social media services that market health care [MORE]

Can Wellness Be Fun?

Remember scavenger hunts and Scouting merit badges, “Hangman” and board games?  Child’s play promoted physical, cognitive and social development, [MORE]

Mood Monitoring

This piece isn’t about monitoring patients’ health, but detecting nuances of language, reflecting buyers’ moods, could be a useful [MORE]

Earbud Monitoring of Vital Signs

A quote from Valencell best summarizes what this is about: “Valencell’s Healthset® solution integrates a fitness sensor directly into [MORE]

Predicting Metabolic Syndrome in the First Decade of Life

Professor of Public Health at the LSU Health Sciences Center (New Orleans), Melinda Sothern, recently reported her findings that [MORE]

Download for “Personalized Preventative Healthcare”

While this free download derives from European studies of the wellness spectrum, the key concept applies everywhere: “Because quality [MORE]

Monell Chemical Senses Center

There’s more than one way to explore personalized medicine, and researchers at the Monell Center in Philadelphia are doing [MORE]

VC’s Pursuing Obesity Projects

With the World Health Organization (WHO) projecting that, by 2015, 2.3 billion adults will be overweight, and among them 700 [MORE]

Nice Suite of Home Monitoring Products

This story is nearly a sponsored advertisement for iSOFT (Sydney, Australia), a maker of home and distance monitoring devices for [MORE]

Preventative Medicine vs. Unnecessary Care

It may be a popular perception that emergency departments are clogged with patients who don’t really need emergency attention, but [MORE]

ODL (Observations on Daily Living) as Medical Data

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, NJ; largest US philanthropy devoted exclusively to health interests) recently awarded several $480k grants [MORE]

Growing Fat from Being Lean

Virtua Health System, a not-for-profit hospital group headquartered in Marlton, NJ, has opened its $31m, 225,000 square foot “Health [MORE]

Wellness’ Effect on Health

Vitality Group, a wellness branch of South Africa’s largest private insurer Discovery Health (Capetown), has seen positive [MORE]

Good News/Bad News: Smoking and Obesity

When the American Tobacco Company launched its advertising campaign at women in 1928, with the slogan “Reach for a Lucky [MORE]

Summit for Best Practices and Innovation in Mobile Health, London, Dec. 1-2.

Meet with over 60 industry leaders from network operators, healthcare providers, device manufacturers, investors, systems integrators, body networks developers, and [MORE]

CBO’S Read on Wellness and Preventative Medicine

If you are of the opinion that preventative medicine and wellness hold significant cost savings for healthcare, read the letter [MORE]

Wellness Insurance

The National Business Coalition for Health has published the results of its 2008 survey assessing wellness programs among 103 health [MORE]