Wellness

Instead of imposing higher co-pays and rolling back health insurance coverage for state employees, Connecticut officials want their workers to get a colonoscopy to help cut costs.

As an employer, are you doing all you can to protect your company from the impact of workers’ compensation claims? Injuries will happen, but here are some of the dynamics you should know about, as well as solutions from workers compensation experts.

Even though companies can reduce overall risk and cost of employee health benefit plans through wellness initiatives, these programs may not be enough to combat obesity.

A fight to keep state money from abortion providers and affiliates like Planned Parenthood has potentially terminated a key health care program serving hundreds of thousands of low-income women.

It only took a decade or so of new stories, scientific studies and common sense – and premiums inflated enough to make college tuition look modest – but it looks like wellness is catching on.

Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich on Monday said Alzheimer's disease is on pace to cost the government some $20 trillion over the next four decades and said boosting federal research money would be a wise investment.

Health officials trying to reduce obesity and improve eating habits at five San Antonio elementary schools unveiled a $2 million research project Wednesday that will photograph students' lunch trays before they sit down to eat and later take a snapshot of the leftovers.

A Liberty Mutual survey shows that employers fail to take advantage of absence data they collect to manage the costly impact of employees being away from work.