Health & Healthcare

While those days were difficult, Rodrique said he was fortunate that his background in cardiovascular disease at Merck helped him to better understand his parents’ diagnoses and have informed conversations with their doctors.

The Center for Creative Leadership once observed that, in a crisis, “People are overwhelmed with the amount of information coming at them.

With or without global volatility, good financial education and reassurance about long-term retirement savings strategies, portfolios, and other aspects of personal budgeting can help remove money as an extra worry that only compounds other stress.

Personal demands and routines in many cases have become only more complicated for employees—or have been completely upended.

Widespread remote and hybrid work have introduced plenty of conveniences.

World events can make us feel like life is spinning out of control. Relaying solid facts, staying calm, and putting major issues in context for your business can help employees better handle stress in the workplace.

If your business has an EAP provider (tens of thousands of Principal clients do through Magellan Healthcare), you may not realize all the well-being resources you can access through the program.

Pandemic turmoil, coupled with a painstakingly gradual return to more normal routines, has taken a toll on our collective mental health.

Think of an epidemiologist as an advanced chess player, an individual who studies the world’s patterns of infectious diseases to stay several steps ahead of viral threats.

What if we told you that, in a survey of 41 people living with Parkinson's disease who had undergone a remote audio-visual DBS tele-programming session, 98% reported that telehealth improved their access to healthcare services?