| Managing the Most Costly Medical Conditions
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Michael Weinper
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| Back to work, sooner rather than later--Outpatient rehab can speed the return for employees, whether they've been injured on the job or have missed time due to a major illness.
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| News & Trends
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| Cholesterol Limbo...How low can you go? *Obsesity Limbo:...In the middle ground, how much coverage? * Obesity drugs * Weight loss programs * Concierge services at work * JCAHO hospital ratings * The co-pay ripple effect...
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| Reining in the Rising Cost of Obesity
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Dr. Ronald S. Leopold, MD, MPH
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| Trimming the fat in your business--Obesity costs U.S. companies more than $13 billion a year in medical fees and lost productivity, along with 39 million lost workdays. What can your company do about it? Don't just sit around...
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| The Impact of Allergic Rhinitis On Employee Health and Productivity
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Donald Gemson
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Benjamin Eng
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| Wellness Inventory, a survey-based program developed by Pfizer Inc. and the MEDSTAT Group, has consistently found allergic rhinitis to have a significant impact on employee productivity and employer costs.
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| "I won't be in today"--the dilemma of "incidental absence"
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| Incidental absence--defined as an unscheduled absence from work of one to five days--is a growing and costly phenomenon.
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