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Katie Blomquist’s Nonprofit, Going Places, Ensures Kids Living Below the Poverty Line Can Go the Distance

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A viral start for Katie Blomquist In the fall of 2016, when Katie Blomquist worked as a first-grade teacher at a Title I school in South Carolina, a boy in her class asked her for a bike for his birthday. We tend to think about our other basic needs such as food, clothing, water, shelter and medical support.

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Dealing with Disruption: Business Strategist Elin Hauge Discusses AI as a Business Tool

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They’ve been her primary area of focus since 2016, and before that, she spent more than a decade using her master’s degrees in biophysics, medical technology, management science and operational research to help business leaders make sense of other data-driven technologies. People have different bone structure, different muscle mass.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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Flipboard Photo courtesy of Flipboard Who they are: From health care to fashion, getting news you care about without looking up dozens of individual media sources can be daunting. Most Innovative Company in Health & Wellness 4. Seed Health Inc. Health & Wellness Hims & Hers Health Inc.

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StretchLabs Is Taking Stretching from a Pre-Workout Activity to Part of a Holistic Wellness Regimen

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But her perception of the benefits of stretching profoundly transformed after she could no longer play cello or conduct orchestras in the wake of her 2016 breast cancer diagnosis—and a double mastectomy and subsequent medical treatments that followed thereafter.

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

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They are in abundance as developers jump on the corporate wellness train: there are mental health apps with therapists in your pocket. The report also shows that mental health disorders cost $1 trillion in lost productivity every year, pointing to the necessity of mental health and wellness programs in making a dent in these losses.

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The New Secrets of Perfect Sleep

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared sleep deprivation a public health epidemic in 2014, noting that “about 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep problems.” We need to prioritize sleep as a health imperative,” says Mark Brown, M.D., This article was published in April 2016 and has been updated.

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Legendary Entrepreneur Naveen Jain Wants Nothing More Than to Change the Way Humanity Lives

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When you use the restroom, the toilet analyzes your samples to assess your gut health. Or maybe, looking at all your data, the artificial intelligence has already sent a prescription to a pharmacy and the medication is on the way to your home before you even realize there’s a problem, much less go to a doctor. Then $1,000.

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