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Insurance verification uses Social Security info
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 10 days ago
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The form asks for my dependent's name (already filled out) and whether we are legally married and if the dependent is eligible for coverage. The part that bothers me is printing my dependent's Social Security number...Not to worry, said the administrator...
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Smart Choices labels lead to litigation over health benefits
Newark :: NJ :: USA | 16 days ago
Credibility General Mills Inc. alone is facing eight proposed class-action suits over the health claims it made for Cheerios cereal and Yoplait yogurt. And the Food and Drug Administration, fresh from warning food makers of the shortcomings it saw in the Smart Choices...
Tags: General Mills Inc., FDA, food makers, health benefits, Kellogg Co., digestive health, Cheerios, proposed class, regulate digestive, Newark, General Mills, Health claims on food labels, Kellogg Company, Nutrition facts label, Food, Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Health Medical Pharma
Sunrise delays plan to change health benefits
Fort Lauderdale :: FL :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility The Sunrise City Commission has agreed to delay money-saving changes in health benefits for civilian employees at City Hall until the plan takes effect citywide. The proposal, expected take effect Jan. 1 and save up to $280,000 this fiscal year, would...
Tags: City Hall, civilian employees, PPO, takes effect, health benefits, Joey Scuotto, Fort Lauderdale, Health insurance, Insurance, Business Finance, Labor, Social Issues
How dark chocolate helps ease emotional stress, new scientific evidence reports
According to the article, "New Evidence That Dark Chocolate Helps Ease Emotional Stress," published online in the Nov. 12, 2009 issue of Medical News Today, the "chocolate cure" for emotional stress is getting new support from a clinical trial published...
Tags: dark chocolate, health benefits, helps ease emotional stress, latest studies
Breastfeeding may not provide long-term benefits, according to research
Health researchers in Canada recently assessed children through age 6, half of whom were exclusively breastfed for 6 months and half who were breastfed exclusively for 3 months, followed by combined feedings of breastmilk and formula. They found that...
Tags: nursing, breastfeeding, health benefits, childhood obesity
Why is sitting hazardous to your health?
November 3 - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Decreased physical activity may have little to do with the recent spike in obesity rates among U.S. adolescents, according to the press release, "Decrease in Physical Activity May Not Be a...
Tags: lipase, sitting hazardous to health, physical activity, standing, health benefits, adolescent physical activity studies on health
Latest health benefit studies on how pomegranate juice alters gene expression
Every few months a new article on the health benefits of pomegranate appears in magazines such as Life Extension. The November 2009 issue of Life Extension magazine has a title appearing on its front cover, reporting: "Pomegranate Beneficially...
Tags: pomegranate, health benefits, how pomegranate juice concentrate alters gene expression, latest studies
Health officials deciding who gets vaccinated first
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility With swine flu cases soaring in Texas and the first doses of vaccine perhaps a week away, health officials are still trying to sort out who should be first in line, the state's health commissioner said Monday. The first vaccine to arrive — in relatively...
Tags: swine flu, Santa Rosa School District, Santa Rosa County, Santa Rosa Professional Educators, Texas Department of Health Services, health benefits, health officials, San Antonio
Could eating chocolate twice a week save your life if you've had a heart attack?
Most nutritionists and consumers realize chocolate is addictive. Should you believe the widespread media headlines and recent scientific study that eating chocolate twice a week could save your life if you survived a heart attack? See the ABC News...
Tags: chocolate, health benefits, heart disease, heart attack, lowering risk by eating chocolate twice weekly, new study
Trial begins over Deere dispute
Davenport :: IA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility as many Deere & Co. retirees do --- that they bleed green and always will. But today, a group of retirees found themselves on the opposite side of a federal courtroom from their former employer. In response to a new health benefits plan that Deere rolled...
Tags: As Deere & Co., Deere & Co., health benefits, benefits plan, Davenport
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