Wellness

Before a business should consider why a wellness program should be initiated, it should consider what may happen if it doesn't.

Elisa Mendel, vice president of Kaiser's HealthWorks, speaks with BenefitsPro about wellness programs, HBOs new documentary, and the weight of the nation.

Benefits managers say poor health behavior is the greatest contributor to health plan costs. Members' decisions led to more than $317 billion of avoidable medical costs in 2011, according to a report from Express Scripts released Thursday.

One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf...

Army leaders are launching a sweeping, independent review of how the service evaluates soldiers with possible post-traumatic stress disorder following recent complaints that some PTSD diagnoses were improperly overturned.

Christina "Gigi" Filippi is a call center sales manager in Hendersonville, Tenn. After establishing an employee-run wellness program in her office, she has lost more than 97 pounds.

Employers and HR professionals know obesity impacts business. And as a nation, we've been outright told we're too fat. So why, after decades of increasing waistlines, would we expect a national campaign to suddenly change things?

Democratic House members from New York and California are pushing a bill that would mandate special privileges to women who wish to remain in the workplace and maintain a healthy pregnancy.