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12 Things A Massage Therapist Knows About You After An Hour

Sure, we expect massage therapists to ease muscle tension and help us work through injuries. But that hour on the table reveals a lot more than just the stress we've asked them to soothe. We talked to a few massage therapists to find out just how much they can tell about us and our health. MORE: The 1-Minute Neck Massage

7 Things a Funeral Director Wants You to Know

Here’s How Long Frozen Meat Actually Lasts, According to a Food Safety Pro

Why (some) parents don’t vaccinate

The million-headed dragon of online anger has a great mouthful of fire for parents who don’t vaccinate their kids. But such scolding misses the mark, alienating caring parents who just want t…

How Long Is a Cold or Flu Contagious?

Learn how cold and flu viruses spread, find out when to seek medical care for influenza or a cold, and discover the contagious period for the flu and common cold.

This 124-Year-Old Patent Reveals The Right Way To Use Toilet Paper

The eternal debate over bathroom conventions seems to have actually been answered more than a century ago.

4 Tips to Creating a Personal Wellness Plan

Personal wellness plans are exactly what they sound like; they’re personalized plans to help you maintain health and wellbeing.

Get to know one of VA’s pharmacy leaders: Part II

Today, we’re sharing Part 2 of our interview with Associate Chief of Pharmacy, Christina White. She gives us deeper insight into pharmacy life and her personal experience with VA. What role does Pharmacy play in VA’s integrated model of care? Part of the PACT model is having a clinical pharmacy specialist on the team who addresses medication issues. The physician can refer a patient to the pharmacist between visits if they need to focus more intensively on, for example, blood sugar. So, the…

What The Wellness Coach Needs To Know

Stress gets blamed for most everything, and much of time deserves the accusation (60 percent to 90 percent of health-care professional visits are stress-related – ). Wellness and health coach…

Health and Wellness Saves Lives and Money

Health and wellness issues were on the agenda for a recent meeting of the Bluegrass ADD in which Executive Director David Duttlinger reported on the organization's significant cost savings on health insurance premiums primarily due to a focus on wellness.

4 Tips for Lessening the Mental Health Gap in Your Wellness Program

It's important to address the mental health needs of your team. Here are four ways you can improve the wellness of your team.

Health sabotage: 7 ways you’re harming your path to wellness

Are you unwittingly damaging your health? Learn common pitfalls on the road to wellness—and how to avoid them.

Using Technology to Teach Health and Wellness

Blogger Mary Beth Hertz offers a selection of websites, games and apps that can help teach students about health and wellness.

Nestle: We Want to Be a Health and Wellness Company

Wellness 101: 9 dimensions of wellness

Your health and well-being isn’t just about nutrition and exercise. Although nurses take great care of others, they generally don’t take care of themselves.