Rise in companies offering wellness benefits

The growing number of Brits out of work due to mental health conditions has prompted a surge in companies promoting wellness perks to new recruits. Over the past 12 months job adverts referring to wellness subsidies, budgets or discounts rose 310%, while those mentioning employee counselling services doubled (up 95%), reveals research by social media […]

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Rise in companies offering wellness benefits

The growing number of Brits out of work due to mental health conditions has prompted a surge in companies promoting wellness perks to new recruits. Over the past 12 months job adverts referring to wellness subsidies, budgets or discounts rose 310%, while those mentioning employee counselling services doubled (up 95%), reveals research by social media […]

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Cats & Covid

Household cats acquired the same COVID-19 variants as their owners throughout the pandemic, according to new research. The study, published in Emerging Infectious Diseases and led by the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) – where scientists first detected human-to-cat COVID-19 transmission in April 2021 – found a retrospective association between the dominant […]

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Cats & Covid

Household cats acquired the same COVID-19 variants as their owners throughout the pandemic, according to new research. The study, published in Emerging Infectious Diseases and led by the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) – where scientists first detected human-to-cat COVID-19 transmission in April 2021 – found a retrospective association between the dominant […]

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Ethnic minority patients yearn for warmth from health care professionals

Developing better connections between ethnic minority patients and health care professionals could drive more positive health care experience for ethnic minority patients, researchers have found. Responding to reports of discrimination and treatment lacking in empathy, the researchers, led by the University of Westminster and including scientists from Oxford University, Queen Mary University of London, King’s […]

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Ethnic minority patients yearn for warmth from health care professionals

Developing better connections between ethnic minority patients and health care professionals could drive more positive health care experience for ethnic minority patients, researchers have found. Responding to reports of discrimination and treatment lacking in empathy, the researchers, led by the University of Westminster and including scientists from Oxford University, Queen Mary University of London, King’s […]

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Alcohol & office parties

Limits should be placed on the amount of alcohol served at work events according to the Chartered Management Institute, after it found that nearly one in three managers has witnessed ‘inappropriate behaviour or harassment’ at work parties. Commenting on the issue of capping drinks at work events, Martin Preston, addiction specialist and Founder of Private […]

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Alcohol & office parties

Limits should be placed on the amount of alcohol served at work events according to the Chartered Management Institute, after it found that nearly one in three managers has witnessed ‘inappropriate behaviour or harassment’ at work parties. Commenting on the issue of capping drinks at work events, Martin Preston, addiction specialist and Founder of Private […]

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Cancer may lurk in ‘normal looking’ skin

Cancer may lurk in ‘normal looking’ skin: A University of Queensland study has found skin with few visible freckles or blemishes may still carry sun-damaged DNA mutations that can trigger cancer. Researchers from UQ’s Frazer Institute Dermatology Research Centre investigated the relationship between the number of mutations found in ‘normal looking’ skin and the number […]

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Cancer may lurk in ‘normal looking’ skin

Cancer may lurk in ‘normal looking’ skin: A University of Queensland study has found skin with few visible freckles or blemishes may still carry sun-damaged DNA mutations that can trigger cancer. Researchers from UQ’s Frazer Institute Dermatology Research Centre investigated the relationship between the number of mutations found in ‘normal looking’ skin and the number […]

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