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What’s more dangerous, being a man or a woman?
What’s more dangerous, being a man or a woman?
Category: Health
Canadian companies using incentives to bolster employees’ health and wellness
Over one quarter (26%) of Canadian employers are intending to offer some type of financial reward in 2012 to employees whom participate in health management programs
Court rules Ontario $50 billion lawsuit against tobacco companies can proceed
The province launched a lawsuit against a group of 14 Canadian, American and British-based tobacco companies in 2009 to help recover costs of treating people with smoking-related illnesses
New technology tracks tainted food
Millions of people are sickened each year by foodborne illnesses.
Official: France’s health insurance agency to file complaint in breast implant scandal
French government’s decision to pay for implant removals falls to the state health system, which estimated the removals could cost $78 million
Frantic lives lead to early deaths
Eight out of ten Canadians understand that heart disease and stroke is preventable, but can’t devote the time they need to change their lifestyles.
New technology pre-screens for dementia/post-concussion syndrome
View the video here on your mobile device. Narrator: With the baby boomer population hitting the age of retirement, more and more families will have to deal with a parent of loved suffering with dementia. Often, in the early stages, diagnosing dementia can be a long, stressful process with multiple visits to a family physician. [...]
Canadians not adequately insured for critical illnesses
TD Insurance poll found that 65% of Canadian parents with children still living at home don’t have critical illness insurance
Electronic Hit and Run
View the video here on your mobile device. Lately, I have witnessed a lot of criticism and derision on various social media websites. These sites are seen worldwide so almost anyone with a computer, virtually anywhere, can read your words. People are saying things on the world-wide-web that they would never say out loud or [...]
Ontario Cancer Care ordered to stop sending reports through the mail
By ILSTV Staff on Oct 14, 2011 in Health
Following privacy breech, Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian orders Cancer Care Ontario to stop sending screening reports to physicians in paper format, says more secure method is required
Vermont moves towards Canadian-style health care system
By ILSTV Staff on Oct 05, 2011 in Health
It will be a trendsetting initiative as no other state has tried such a dramatic restructuring of its health care system.
Life insurance companies need to target younger customers
Many North Americans under the age of 45 don’t have enough life insurance
New Brunswick government backs away from proposal to cancel free flu shots
The government had proposed ending free flu shots for people with chronic illness, pregnant women and parents with children under the age of six.
What’s more dangerous, your parent or your child?
Statistically speaking, your annual risk that your child will kill you is slightly over one in a million.
Top three insurance claims for snowbirds
Health-related issues the most common insurance claims for snowbirds, says RSA
What’s more dangerous, showers or baths?
What’s more dangerous, showers or baths?
Nearly 50 million Americans are without health insurance
U.S. Census Bureau reports in 2010, 9.8 percent of American children under 18 (7.3 million) were without health insurance
IBM’s Watson supercomputer, famous for ‘Jeopardy!’, moving to health insurance at WellPoint
IBM’s supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world’s best “Jeopardy!” players on TV, is being tapped by one of the U.S.’s largest health insurers to help diagnose medical problems and authorize treatments
The A, B, Cs of Time Management
If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority!
