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Following advice to avoid sun exposure may be harmful to the health of women in countries with low solar intensity, according to new research out of Sweden. Participants that avoided sun exposure had double the all-cause mortality rate of those …

Businesses of all types can learn something from the way Amazon handled the price increase of its Prime service, according to a Harvard Business Review blog post. The leading online retailer recently raised the cost of its subscription service from …

Laurie and Bruce Adee have lived in Seattle, Washington for 44 years. On the north end of the rapidly growing city, they have enjoyed raising their two sons wile working in education, surrounded by some of Puget Sound’s most breathtaking …

Online training,or e-learning, is the future of employee education, and it’s what national corporations in most every industry are using to teach company procedures. In fact, more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies are now using educational technology for …

Follow steps from the Inc.com article “How to Change Someone’s Mind” to complete the difficult task of convincing a person that what they think they know might not actually be the case. When someone has already decided that they know …

Diagnosed cases of vitamin D deficiency increased threefold between 2008 and 2010 according to a new study published in the Southern Medical Journal.

From 2008 to 2010, the rate of vitamin D deficiency per 100,000 doctor visits increased from …

Shelly DeJaynes LaPlant had never tanned in her life. Saddled with fair Type II skin growing up in sunny Colorado, she couldn’t go outside in the summer without breaking out in a rash or getting sunburn.

Her transformation story is …

Increased risk of death from heart disease and cancer, as well as higher all cause mortality risk were associated with low vitamin D levels in a recent study published in the British Medical Journal.

The meta-analysis, which included data …