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Wellness Program Results Worth the Weight
McClatchy Tribune NewspapersYour loss can be your employer's gain. Companies increasingly are seeing the benefit of healthy living among their workers. So when Jo Anne Ragan decided to join an online version of Weight Watchers a couple years ago to lose about 115 pounds, her...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Weight Loss, Ohio, Hewitt Associates, Overweight
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Workers Benefit From Wellness Programs
AP Business WriterIf 2010 is the year you plan to finally drop a few pounds or snuff that smoking habit, your employer may offer incentives to make those resolutions stick or even pay off with lower health premiums. More companies have started offering employees so-called...Tags: Companies and Corporations, National Government, Government, Overweight, Labor Legislation
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Fat Fatigue
Special to Tribune NewspapersSlim society's tolerance is wearing thin. As more people over the last decade have tipped the scales toward obesity, normal-weight folks have signed up for employee wellness programs that offer them lower premiums and other financial perks as a reward...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Weight Loss, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Safety at School
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Health Care 101: If Obama's bill passes, the changes start small and keep getting bigger
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — It took lawmakers a year to shape President Barack Obama's health care bill. If it finally passes Congress, it'll take the better part of a decade to write the user manual for consumers and doctors, employers and insurance...Tags: Barack Obama, Private Health Care, Drugs and Medicines, Health Insurance, Elections
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About 1 in 4 in California lack health insurance, a UCLA study finds
Nearly 1 in 4 Californians under age 65 had no health insurance last year, according to a new report, as soaring unemployment propelled vast numbers of once-covered workers into the ranks of the uninsured.
The state's uninsured population jumped to 8.2...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Unemployment, Economy, Business and Finance, Layoffs and Downsizing, Politics
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Changes to Expect from the Health Bill
The Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — It took lawmakers a year to shape President Barack Obama's health care bill. If it finally passes Congress, it'll take the better part of a decade to write the user manual for consumers and doctors, employers and insurance...Tags: Barack Obama, Private Health Care, Drugs and Medicines, Health Insurance, Elections
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Paid Sick Days Benefit Workers, Employers
They feed our children, clean our offices and protect our hospitals, but when thousands of Connecticut's workers get sick, they have to choose between their health and their jobs. Opponents of paid sick-day legislation believe this impossible decision...Tags: San Francisco, Swine Flu, Connecticut, Laws, Illnesses
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Bianchi: Now that he's fired Kirk Speraw, Keith Tribble's own neck is on the line
Sentinel Staff WriterFiguratively speaking, UCF athletic director Keith Tribble guillotined Kirk Speraw on Monday. Now Tribble's own neck is on the line. He has a fired a longtime coach in Speraw who was quite popular with UCF's fans and now Tribble is going to execute a...Tags: University of Central Florida Knights, Basketball, Football, Career and Workplace, Colleges and Universities
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Drag queen loses nursing job over 34-year-old arrest
In South Florida's gay community, Ray Fetcho is known as drag queen "Tiny Tina."
To the families of elderly dementia patients, he's a godsend, a compassionate caregiver.
But now Fetcho is out of a job and his 35-year nursing career is in jeopardy, all...Tags: Nursing, Trials, Alzheimer's Disease, Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs
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Lehigh Valley jobless rate down slightly
OF THE MORNING CALLUnemployment in the Lehigh Valley during January was 9.6 percent, a slight improvement from the month before. Still, the region has among the highest jobless rates in Pennsylvania, according to data released today by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor...Tags: Carbon County, Weather Reports, Unemployment, Business, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Now hear this: Voice actors stage comeback
A report published by Voices.com reveals that the voice and speech industry continues to grow and is currently valued at $12.3 billion. The report highlights three growing fields in the entertainment industry; audiobooks, mobile gaming and podcasting....Tags: Dieting, Health, Career and Workplace, Gaming, Employment
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