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  • Hot Trends, Sectors and Jobs: What You Need to Get Hired Next Year

    Published November 29, 2012

    The financial crisis has changed the labor market and job seekers need to recognize this shift  and use it to their advantage to secure employment.

  • How to Stand Up to Knee Pain

    Published November 09, 2012

    Knee pain can impact your daily life, but the cost of surgery is high. Here are simple and affordable ways to relieve the pain.

  • Hiding on Facebook: Online Election Talk Gets Nasty

    Published October 30, 2012

    Social networks have become battleground states in a contentious political season with users posting things online that they would never say in person and the ramifications are harsh and long-lasting.

  • Sharing the Doctor’s Note: Win for Patients and Physicians

    Published October 25, 2012

     It can be hard to accurately remember your entire medical history, but thankfully our medical records, including doctor’s office-visit notes, provide invaluable insight to our health. But they can be tricky to your hands on--until now.

  • How to Avoid the Failure Trap

    Published October 18, 2012

    Failure has been getting a bad rap. Learn how to learn from it and move yourself and your corporation forward.

  • How to Help Men Become Good Health Consumers

    Published October 08, 2012

    When it comes to going to the doctor, men tend to wait until something needs to be fixed, according to a recent survey. The practice is risky for their health and wallets.

  • How to Pick a Health Care Plan that Fits Your Lifestyle and Budget

    Published October 04, 2012

    A recent survey shows consumers find choosing health-care benefits as one of the most difficult of life decisions, second only to saving for retirement. Here's how to make the process a little easier.

  • Just What the Doctor Ordered: Medical Apps to Improve Care, Health

    Published September 26, 2012

    Apps are making consumers better patients and doctors more thorough and communicative. Still, the thousands of apps that exist vary in grade and quality.

  • Secret Weapon in Health Care: Your Pharmacist

    Published September 13, 2012

    With primary care physicians in short supply, doctors’ schedules on overload and about 30 million people scheduled to enter the health care system by 2014, patients may start to feel neglected. But there person behind the counter at the pharmacy is ready and willing to help.

  • Do You Really Need an Annual Physical?

    Published August 24, 2012

    The annual physical has become an enshrined institution in this country, no matter how much we dread it. But is it really necessary and cost effective?