CDC opens model employee fitness center
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For decades, the nation's top public health agency has promoted exercise and healthy eating &#151; and offered its own employees high-fat cafeteria food and a lackluster fitness center. But no more.
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Partners HealthCare is teaming up with one of the state's largest employers in an experiment to see whether they can improve employees' health and, ideally, reduce medical costs by monitoring workers' high blood pressure over the Internet.
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Online tools can help workers assess their planâs health.
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New Jersey's health department is escalating the battle against the bulge by starting a new Office of Nutrition and Fitness to better coordinate programs aimed at preventing obesity. The agency is particularly needed in New Jersey &#151; possibly the first state to create such a government body.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted its first âfull functionalâ avian flu exercise to prepare what public heath experts consider a major threat.
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SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 29 -- A $50 million high-tech rehabilitation center opened its doors Monday, designed to serve the growing number of U.S. troops who return from war as amputees or with severe burns.
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Residents eligible to receive the flu vaccine lined up Saturday at a distribution center sponsored by the Visiting Nurse Association.
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A Canadian health club is  offering a new form of exercise for people bored with the  treadmill or cycling classes -- the Wii Workout Station.
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Gwinnett broke ground Monday for a new $81 million hospital, where 21 beds will be added to a health system sorely in need of more space.
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The new facility, Microsoft's sixth, will open in July. The lab will be led by Jennifer Tour Chayes, marking the first time a woman has been tapped to lead one of the company's research centers.
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The Whitman-Walker Clinic, the region's biggest provider of HIV-AIDS services, announced yesterday that it will expand medical care as it moves toward becoming a comprehensive health center.
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Private rooms would be standard in new U.S. hospitals under recommendations from an influential architects' group that says building design can help curb infectious diseases and medical errors.
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KAMPALA, Uganda  - The biggest HIV/AIDS training  center in sub-Saharan Africa opened in Uganda Wednesday with  officials hopeful it will significantly boost the continent's  ability to fight the deadly pandemic.
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Team works to create sensor-rich environment that can tell if you're having trouble sleeping, losing weight or even developing a joint problem.
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THERE WASN'T a whisper of opposition last week at the state Public Health Council as Massachusetts General Hospital presented its plan to replace some old buildings with a $498 million complex that will include a larger emergency department, 71 surgical suites, and 150 new beds. The council approved the plan unanimously, but the expansion raises the question of whether the ...
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By Sherrie Peif, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 3--The Good Samaritan Society Water Valley Senior Living Resort, scheduled to open spring 2008, has its first employee in a director of marketing.   Windsor resident Dawn Jensen began her duties Feb.1.
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A burgeoning industry of wellness advisers, counselors and consultants is booming as corporate America tries to increase productivity and control insurance costs by helping its employees get healthy and shed pounds.