The recent health care reform legislation puts a new emphasis on health and wellness programs that are intended to improve our well-being. Plug “well-being” into a Google search and you will see the top 10 results are about as varied as could be: from ancient philosophical definitions and Wikipedia posts to medical student organizations [...]
As seen on the PRWeekus.com “Insider” blog on April 1, 2010.
The philosopher Isaiah Berlin once wrote an essay (based on the thoughts of the poet Archilochus) called “The Hedgehog and the Fox.” [...]
As seen on the PRWeekus.com “Insider” blog on March 29, 2010. This is the first of three blogs in a series focusing on communications and personalized medicine. Each week PRWeekus.com features a guest blogger on its “Insider” blog.
Widmeyer’s Health and Wellness team recently leveraged a heated debate about the use of marijuana to treat chronic diseases. We put the John Theurer Cancer Center in the center of this debate, positioning them as experts and secured a feature article in Oncology & Biotech News.
The fallout from the release of new guidelines for breast cancer screening has been swift. “White House backs off cancer test guidelines” is a sample headline with cable outlets providing much juicier verbiage.
To some, the notion of well-being and wellness programs is as ubiquitous as the water surrounding a ship at sea. Indeed, at first glance it does appear that way. It seems like every company these days offers some sort of intervention designed to promote healthier living, from global business empires to local sports clubs. Over [...]
Plug “well-being” into a Google search and you will see the top ten results provide a menagerie of options: from ancient philosophical definitions and Wikipedia posts to radio station coverage and military experiences, the choices run the gamut. While “wellness program” provides a more focused set of results, the information available still lacks any sort [...]
Aristotle is known to have said: “Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” If only the essence of happiness was easy to bottle! Unfortunately, the idea of happiness and how it relates to well-being is not easily defined, instead riddled with multiple components and connections, to [...]
