Health

Starbucks partners (or employees) get treated very well by their employers.  The number of benefits are near endless.  Here is a short list of what the benefits include:

Free drinks 30minutes before and after work shift, as well as during the shift
30% off drinks/equipment/coffee
Free pound of coffee every week
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Health/Dental/Vision benefits for all employees who work [...]

When we get our prescription drugs filled, we trust that the staff behind the pharmacy counter are accurately filling the prescription as ordered. At times, prescriptions are not received for 24 hours until after they are dropped off — which means that the patient might not remember exactly what the doctor said in regards [...]

For years the FDA has been warning asthma patients about the switch of inhaler types. As the deadline grows near, the FDA is asking patients to ask their doctors to switch now. Until now, rescue (or fast acting) inhalers contained a compound called chloroflurocarbons, or CFCs for short.
These compounds damage the protective ozone [...]

Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is something that most people have been learning about since the beginning of their educational career. However, the majority of those people do not know why HIV has been baffling the minds of scientists for years. More so, HIV is one of the scariest diseases known to man [...]

The death of two young women who received the cervical cancer vaccination is causing some in the U.K. to question a strategy that calls for hundreds of thousands of schoolgirls to receive the shot next fall, the Daily Mail reports.The young women who died received the vaccination, marketed under the name Gardasil, in Germany and [...]

HONG KONG, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Physical barriers, such as regular handwashing and wearing masks, gloves and gowns, may be more effective than drugs to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses such as influenza and SARS, a study has found. (Link)
Washing yours hands after cooking or using the restroom is such a simple thing to [...]

A company has developed a new blood test that can test for various diseases such as breast cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.  There is a little debate going on about whether or not these tests are beneficial.  If you know that you are going to get one of these diseases at some point in your [...]