Prevention and Wellness news and information

A patient engagement and reporting program linked to financial incentives yielded multiple improvements in health measures for employees of UnitedHealth Group, according to a study published in the August issue of Health Affairs.
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The authors of Cracking Health Costs say more companies should re-evaluate their approach to wellness programs.
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Doctors typically give patients prescriptions for medications. But a new program in New York City has doctors prescribing fruits and vegetables to obese or overweight patients.
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We know Apple CEO Tim Cook loves his Nike FuelBand. And the fitness-tracking wristband seems to be inspiring how the company is thinking about its own wearable device: it’s begun hiring several experts in health tech.
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The gap in life expectancy between black and white Americans is at its narrowest since the federal government started systematically tracking it in the 1930s, but a difference of nearly four years remains, and federal researchers have detailed why in a new report.
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Americans are living longer than they did two decades ago, but they are losing ground on key measures of health to people in other developed nations, a new study shows.
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Here's a health reform snafu that many Americans will benefit from.Older smokers are likely to pay less for health insurance in 2014 because of a computer system glitch that the Obama administration said would limit the penalties insurers could charge tobacco users under the ACA.
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Across the country, workplace wellness programs are making Americans healthier, paying quality-of-life dividends for millions of participating workers now and into the future. Employers are screening workers for diseases, paying for health club memberships...
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Financial incentives may not be enough to get employees to adopt healthy behaviors and stick with them long enough to prevent costly, common diseases that contribute heavily to health spending, according to a trio of researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Obesity is still rising, but at a slower pace, which some experts say may be a sign people are finally responding to a smattering of policy initiatives and an outpouring of national concern.
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