Thanks to skyrocketing health care costs, employee wellness has been in the news a lot these days. But according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Johnson & Johnson has understood the importance of wellness since 1978! That's when the company launched...

If your company has a wellness program, chances are you've asked your employees to complete a Health Risk Assessment. The HRA is an in-depth questionnaire that evaluates each employee's health status; results are almost always reported to the company...

After a month-long absence, Corporate Wellness Insights is back--and there is much to talk about in the world of health and wellness. Today, we're offering an brief flu update. H1N1 (formerly known as swine flu) has advanced at an alarming rate since...

It's time for another edition of the Health Wonk Review, a rundown of the best recent health care blogging. This edition is hosted by Brady Augustine of the medicaidfirstaid blog. If you're interested in health care news, there's bound to be something...

As wellness professionals, we spend a lot of time talking about the long-term cost of obesity. It's not surprising to learn that most workplace wellness programs focus on diet and exercise in an effort to curb medical costs. But as the Workers' Comp...