Wellness

A new study from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that giving employees access to paid sick days reduces visits to hospital emergency rooms, saving $1 billion every year.

Gilead Sciences Inc., one of the world's biggest producers of AIDS drugs, will allow some of them to be made by generic manufacturers — potentially increasing their availability in poor countries, particularly in Africa, officials said Tuesday.

In a new campaign against obesity, the British government issued guidelines on Monday saying that children under the age of 5 — including those who can't even walk yet — should exercise every day.

In 1995, no state had an obesity rate above 20 percent. Now, all but one does.

Lack of knowledge and desire to maintain status quo are barriers to offering these cost-saving plans

Participation in a Nebraska wellness program designed to lower health care costs and improve productivity has increased to more than 30 percent.

Certain components of a wellness program are critical to its success and others are more "nice to have." Here are 10 key characteristics of wellness programs that produce the greatest return on investment.

I complain a lot about wellness. And I use the verb complain, because it remains one of those weird social-political issues everyone seems to support in principle.