Greetings!
Staying healthy throughout the cold, winter months can definitely be challenging.
Consuming lots of vitamin C during the winter will help your body to battle cold and flu symptoms if you do experience them. Vitamin D helps to supplement the lack of light experienced during winter, but it’s still important to get out in the sun whenever it does appear.
Please read on for more important health updates, and if you have any questions or concerns, please give us a call at 732-238-6734.
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The Top Healthy Living Tips to Add to Your Daily Routine
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It’s easy to become lost in the stress and business of our everyday lives. It’s difficult to pull ourselves out of it once we’ve been consumed for so long.
Although you may be telling yourself that you have no time to slow down and you must continue doing all of these things that are putting a damper on your health, there is a way to get your health back.
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Tips from an expert in HR on how to properly complete your W4.
As you may know, the intent of the new W-4 is to help estimate tax paid in as close to the actual number as possible, and employee’s hired prior to January 1, 2020, are not required to fill a new W4; however, all employees hired after January 1, 2020, are required to complete the new W4 form.
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FDA Approves Drugs Faster Than Ever But Relies On Weaker Evidence, Researchers Find
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The Food and Drug Administration has gotten faster at approving new prescription drugs over the past four decades, but the evidence it relies on in making those decisions is getting weaker, according to new research published recently.
As a result, there are more cures and treatments on the market but less proof that they are safe and effective.
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Risks employees face when travelling outside the four walls of a workplace
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Work-related travel can open up employees to a myriad of risks, whether they’re attending a conference outside of the office, travelling to another state for work, or crossing borders to contribute to a long-term project.
The top risk to travelling employees comes up when they get behind the wheel and take their eyes off the road to text, take a call, or have another bite of their breakfast sandwich.
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Lawmakers seek to block insurance companies from access to DNA tests
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More than 26 million Americans have voluntarily submitted their DNA for analysis, but a loophole in federal law could allow some insurance companies to get the genetic information. State lawmakers took the first step to close the loophole.Hundreds of DNA testing kits are on the market and getting more popular everyday.
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CVS: Low Cost Care Coming For Aetna Members In 2020
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CVS Health’s top executive said its stores are focused on offering “80% of what a primary care physician can treat” as it rolls out its new HealthHub format and “zero” and “low copays” for certain Aetna health plan members using CVS services.
Speaking at the JPMorgan Chase Healthcare conference, CVS chief executive Larry Merlo said the company remains on track to have 1,500 HealthHUBs operating by the end of 2021. This comes after the first 50 HealthHubs opened last year in four markets: Houston, Atlanta, Tampa and the market that includes Philadelphia and southern New Jersey.
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Hospitals, insurers urge Supreme Court to hear ACA case to avert havoc
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Two courts have so far ruled against the landmark health law, finding that the individual mandate is unconstitutional because Congress stripped away the financial penalty for forgoing insurance coverage.
Without the financial penalty attached, the so-called individual mandate can no longer be considered a tax and is therefore unconstitutional, according to the courts. A lower court went even further than the appellate court and found that the entire law must fall because the mandate cannot be severed from the remainder of the ACA.
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- NJ Monmouth Ocean Association of Health Underwriters: MOAHU
- National Association of Health Underwriters: AHU
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- Member of NY Affinity Focus Group
- Member of BRIDGES
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