Tuesday, February 16, 2016

How To Actually Motivate Employees To Exercise and other top stories.

  • How To Actually Motivate Employees To Exercise

    How To Actually Motivate Employees To Exercise
    Wellness in the workplace is no longer a passing fad. Today, more than 80% of large employers in the U.S. use some kind of financial incentive to help employees get active. IBM even offers employees free or low-cost Apple Watches to track their progress. But just how effective are all these rewards systems at motivating the desk-bound masses? A new study released in the Annals of Internal Medicine Monday suggests all the cash incentives may not be doing much to get employees moving. In the stud..
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  • How To Actually Motivate Employees To Exercise

    How To Actually Motivate Employees To Exercise
    Wellness in the workplace is no longer a passing fad. Today, more than 80% of large employers in the U.S. use some kind of financial incentive to help employees get active. IBM even offers employees free or low-cost Apple Watches to track their progress. But just how effective are all these rewards systems at motivating the desk-bound masses? A new study released in the Annals of Internal Medicine Monday suggests all the cash incentives may not be doing much to get employees moving. In the stud..
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  • Gastric Reflux Drugs May Be Tied To Dementia Risk

    Gastric Reflux Drugs May Be Tied To Dementia Risk
    Reuters Health - Repeated use of a certain class of drugs for gastric reflux or peptic ulcers was linked with a higher risk for dementia among patients in Germany, researchers say. The drugs, known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), include lansoprazole (Prevacid), esomeprazole (Nexium), and omeprazole (Prilosec), all manufactured by AstraZeneca. The current study can only provide a statistical association between PPI prescriptions and occurrence of dementia in the elderly. It can’t prove that PP..
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  • 3D printer makes bone, ear and cartilage that can be transplanted

    3D printer makes bone, ear and cartilage that can be transplanted
    It's alive! In a breakthrough discovery, a decade in the making, researchers created an ear, muscle, cartilage, skull bone and jawbone using a super high-tech printer. All of the body parts were then transplanted into mice and rats. “The main goal is ...
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  • Flexion's pain drug succeeds in late-stage study

    Flexion's pain drug succeeds in late-stage study
    Flexion Therapeutics Inc said its lead drug met the main goal of reducing pain in patients with moderate to severe osteoarthritis of the knee in a late-stage study.The company's shares jumped about 38 percent to $15 in extended trading on Tuesday.Osteoarthritis is a form of degenerative arthritis that affects 27 million Americans. It is caused by the progressive breakdown and eventual loss of cartilage, and is characterized by pain, swelling, stiffness and decreased mobility of the affected jo..
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  • FDA recommends ban on blood collections from Zika-affected areas

    FDA recommends ban on blood collections from Zika-affected areas
    WASHINGTON The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that blood no longer be collected from regions where the Zika virus is circulating, and that blood needed for transfusions be obtained from areas of the United States without active transmission.The agency said blood banks can continue collecting and preparing platelets and plasma if an FDA-approved pathogen-reduction technology is used. Current pathogen-reduction technology is not approved to treat whole red blood."Based o..
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