Health insurance giant Humana (HUM) and Weight Watchers International (WTW) have partnered to help employers improve worker wellness and battle the nation’s costly obesity epidemic.

E-cigarettes seem to be everywhere these days. You’ve probably noticed Vapor stores popping up on street corners and in strip malls, advertisements and celebrity endorsements. While cities like L.A. have started banning e-cigarettes in workplaces and public spaces, it comes after explosive growth and popularity. Within three years of entering the marketplace in 2007, Bloomberg reports that e-cigarettes had grown to a $1.5 billion industry. Between 2010 and 2011, the market continued to escalate as the number of smokers trying e-cigarettes doubled, according to the CDC, from 10% to 21%.

After recognizing the growing need for clinical professionals and research staff that more closely mirror the patients it serves in its primary service area, City of Hope took the lead to begin creating and reinforcing talent pipeline strategies for Hispanics in the health care and biomedical industries. With programs and events such as T.E.A.C.H. Project and its Diversity Health Care Career Expo proving highly successful (as featured in a previous article), City of Hope is now expanding upon these initiatives as well as developing additional ones in 2015.

Do you have a smart phone?

Chances are, it will very soon become essential in better managing your healthcare and ensuring better health outcomes. Looking back in recent history, smartphones have transformed humanity in a remarkable manner.  With now more than 5 billion mobile phone connections and almost 2 billion smartphone users (approximately 70% of the world’s population) around the world, we have become an interconnected, mobile, smart society.  In the United States, statistics show that approximately 90% of adults own a cellular telephone, 55% posses a smartphone and 50% regularly download apps.  

By The National Diabetes Education Program