Regular exercise can improve fatigue in cancer patients. An RCN-funded research project investigates the best ways to motivate patients to get moving.Fatigue is one of the most common and lasting side effects of breast cancer treatments, especially for patients who have had both radiation and chemotherapy. It’s well...
The most current results from the Merck Canada Workplace Wellness Program have just been published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.This peer-reviewed publication summarizes the results of the corporate wellness program developed by Merck Canada with the health professionals and researchers from the McGill Comprehensive Health...
While Canadian health care is generally regarded well internationally, a distinct lack of wellness programs tarnishes that reputation somewhat. That’s the view of Dr. Steven Grover, professor of medicine at McGill University and the senior author of a new study on workplace wellness.“We focus on exercise not because...
Great workplace wellness results have just been published demonstrating the positive, 1-year impact of a program that our group developed with Merck Canada.This represents the most impressive study to date in a Canadian setting. Results for the second year have already been submitted for publication.Check out the...
Employee wellness programs in the workplace have been shown to work with some success in the United States, particularly when participation is tied to substantial incentives like a reduction in health insurance premiums for participating employees. In Canada, as a result of the publicly funded health care system, incentives...
We congratulate the team at Merck Canada for being recognized by the National Business Group on Health in the USA for the development of the “LIVE IT” program in Canada to support employee wellness.Only three companies outside of the USA received an award and Merck Canada was the only...
As part of our commitment to build on Canadian employers’ experience and knowledge base around employee engagement, we will be launching a 6-week nVIGORus exercise challenge specifically adapted for conference attendees.If you missed our September 25th webinar describing the challenge, we invite you to watch the replay below:
We can plump up our wrinkles and dye our greys, but on the inside, our hearts have their own age. Are those arteries smooth and limber, or hardened with waxy plaque? Spending five minutes at MyHealthCheckup.com can shed light on whether you have a youthful ticker or a pension-aged...
The Canadian Medical Association and their subsidiary, Joule, today announced a new collaboration with our team in support of our evidence-based health promotion programs for use by employees, physicians, and their patients. nVIGORus.com and myhealthcheckup.com are based on over twenty years of patient experience at the McGill Comprehensive Health...
When you’re thinking about loading up on that second helping of apple pie, you might want to remember the results of a just-released study from McGill University. It showed that obesity can reduce your lifespan by eight years. The study examined the records of 3,993 people logged in a...