The New Rules for Sunscreen0
- Green Products
- June 4, 2013
As skin cancer rates continue to rise, here is some helpful advice on what to look for when selecting sunscreen. The New York Times, 5/28/2013
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‘Workplace Wellness’ fails bottom line, waistlines0
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- June 4, 2013
Rand Corp's report on workplace well-being– a 6 billion dollar industry– casts a doubt on the effectiveness of employee wellness programs. Keith Lemer, president of Wellnet, says it takes "senior level support and a high degree of employee engagement in healthy behaviors" for wellness programs to truly work. Although the report found that
READ MOREViolinist’s after-school program brings hope to kids, community0
- Making a Positive Difference
- May 31, 2013
In Venezuela, David France studied El Sistema, a community music education program that brings instruments and instruction to underprivileged kids. Now, David uses the money he makes playing the violin to fund Revolution of Hope, an after-school orchestra he started in the disenfranchised inner-city community of Roxbury, MA. Jose Duarte, principal of Dearborn Middle School,
READ MOREA Better Way to Treat Anxiety: For Teens, Therapy Turns Parents Into ‘Exposure Coaches,’ Not Protectors0
- Home & Family
- May 31, 2013
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic and other institutions are finding that exposure therapy (which slowly exposes patients to the things they are anxious about) can be highly effective in helping children overcome anxiety. Teenager Georgiann Steely overcame her anxiety this way by taking part in a Mayo Clinic exposure therapy program where her parents acted
READ MOREJust Look Me in the Eye Already: The Workplace Perils of Staring at Our Phones and Elsewhere0
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- May 31, 2013
The decline of eye contact- in both work and social settings- is a growing problem, and it's having a negative effect on our ability to influence, impress, and connect with others. The Wall Street Journal, 5/28/2013
READ MOREMarc Neikrug, ‘Healing Ceremony’ Composer, Talks The Power Of Music0
- Music
- May 27, 2013
Marc Neikrug, a composer of contemporary classical music who has performed in both the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra, says of his most recent composition, Healing Ceremony, "I started thinking about people who get sick — not just cancer — but anytime someone finds out from their doctor that something is really wrong
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