Myopia, aka nearsightedness, is extremely common and can start in childhood or young adults. Over time it can lead to early-onset cataracts, retinal detachment, and glaucoma. MedPageToday has an eye-opening article on treatments that can prevent myopia progression and complications. For example:
Common evidence-based treatments that offer both statistically significant and clinically meaningful efficacy include daytime multifocal soft contact lenses (MFSCL), overnight orthokeratology (ortho-k), and topical low dose atropine (LDA). Novel spectacle lenses also showed a promising myopia-inhibiting effect, although with limited availability in the US at the current moment. On average, these options slow myopia progression by 30-70% compared to conventional single vision glasses or contacts. With properly selected early interventions, not only the development of myopia stabilizes at younger ages, the endpoint of the progression is also much lower, resulting in significantly lower risk of complications. Furthermore, with lower levels of myopia at stabilization, many myopic patients could be good candidates for refractive surgery with given corneal thickness.
I get the impression from the article than the treatments need to be started in childhood.
DailyMail has an interesting article that promotes eating with your hands instead of forks, knives and spoons. After all, caveman Grok didn’t have eating utensils.
Those who are a stickler for etiquette should look away now.
That’s because we’ve all been eating the wrong way and should be eating with our hands, according to a psychologist.
Professor Charles Spence, from the University of Oxford, said giving up cutlery is the secret to enjoying food.
He says eating with our hands can ‘heighten the dining experience’ – even for meals like pasta and messy curries.
The professor also claims that hand-feeding improves food flavor and texture while having myriad health benefits.
Steve Parker, M.D
PS: I rarely use “eschew” in conversation because few folks don’t know what it means. In general, I eschew obfuscation.
From their Security, Sustainability and Coaching Director, Steven Broom, being awarded
Well being and Security Influencer of the 12 months 2019, to profitable numerous President and Gold Medal Awards throughout a wide range of divisions, Dyer & Butler Ltd loved an impressive 2019.
As one of many first winners of the Influencer of the 12 months Award, we just lately caught up with Steven to search out out Dyer & Butler Ltd’s spectacular awards historical past, and the way profitable a RoSPA Award has benefited each himself and his group…
What advantages does profitable a RoSPA Award have on your organisation?
RoSPA is a well-respected model for the development of security requirements inside the
trade and the affiliation that we’ve had with RoSPA over time underpins our dedication to sustaining these requirements inside our organisation. The advantage of with the ability to present that we’re RoSPA award winners offers us with an immediately recognizable stage of accomplishment, which demonstrates that our firm places the well being, security and wellbeing of our workers first and above all else.
Which progressive approaches, danger evaluation practices and/or management measures to handle well being and security are you significantly happy with?
I’m typically heard to say that “there’s nothing new in well being and security”, and for probably the most half, that is true as a result of quite a lot of good well being and security administration includes the upkeep of sturdy insurance policies and preparations which are then applied, reviewed and improved over time. This facet of the job won’t ever change. Nevertheless, innovation in well being and security has turn out to be so necessary and firms at the moment are striving to make well being and security simpler, extra dependable and finally safer for the individuals concerned by taking the guesswork and human issue out of the state of affairs. Lately we launched a smartphone-based shut name reporting app. This was designed by our personal IT technician and the response that we’ve had by way of our shut name and security reporting tradition has been phenomenal. The introduction of the app has allowed individuals to create the protected behavior of with the ability to immediately establish and report (with accompanying pictures and site particulars) something that’s inflicting them concern. This has had an enormous constructive impact on the best way that we handle well being and security inside Dyer & Butler and has allowed us to maneuver our focus from the reactive administration of incidents to a extra proactive means which permits us to take care of the pre-cursor to occasions that might doubtlessly result in a extra vital loss-making occasion.
Can you share any outcomes which have come out of your group’s method to well being and security administration?
Sharing finest apply and studying might be one of many biggest instruments that a company has and I’ve personally tried to reside by this throughout my profession in well being
and security. I’ve all the time believed that behavioral security is the important thing to good security administration and while it isn’t a “silver bullet”, the act of getting out and speaking to individuals is such an necessary a part of the job. It’s typically the case that our preconceived concepts of how one thing ought to be accomplished safely are fully turned on their head once you communicate to the individual that really has to do the job and it is just then that you simply get to grasp the problems and issues related to really getting the job accomplished safely. It’s only by understanding this, and the method that your workers will take by way of reacting to work-based conditions to get the job accomplished will you perceive why accidents and incidents happen. Coaching can also be an enormous a part of this. I additionally assume that good well being and security administration is about continually reviewing and refreshing what you’re doing. Issues might really feel as if they’re going OK…however do not permit your self to sit down again and settle into a cushty routine as the following large occasion might solely be simply across the nook. Maintain your security tradition sharp and be continually trying and adapting your method to danger.
How have the RoSPA Awards impressed you/your group to repeatedly enhance well being and security administration?
I view the RoSPA awards very very like a set of steps. The achievement awards have supplied our firm with a pure type of development and have required us to take care of our security requirements. As we’ve now achieved a gentle momentum of security inside the enterprise, this has now led us to have a look at among the different awards the place we imagine that we’re inside putting distance of with the ability to win and supply additional
proof that we’ve attained an exemplary stage of security inside our enterprise.
Personally, to win the RoSPA Influencer of the 12 months Award in 2019 was one of many highlights of my profession and after dedicating 23 years of my life to well being and security, I really feel immensely proud to have acquired this stage of endorsement from my colleagues and friends . I’ve by no means been one to shout about what I do, however the recognition of receiving a private award from RoSPA validates how necessary the work that I (and the entire different well being and security professionals inside the nation) do is to the trade.
What do you get pleasure from most concerning the RoSPA Awards?
The RoSPA Awards is all the time a terrific occasion particularly as it’s co-located with The Security & Well being Expo. It’s a improbable alternative to satisfy new suppliers, check new merchandise and innovation and if nothing else… simply to take a time out to immerse your self in well being and security from a special perspective. The Awards Gala Dinner can also be a superb alternative to community and meet up with pals and colleagues and to have fun one another’s success. I’ve to say that the awards evenings are all the time properly organized and are additionally a great alternative to let your hair down on the finish of the night…sure, security professionals do wish to celebration typically…!
Occupied with becoming a member of this spectacular award profitable neighborhood? The RoSPA Awards is open to organisations, initiatives and websites throughout the globe, and is presently open for entries. For info on the awards and the right way to enter, go to www.rospa.com/awards
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Beginning twice each day flushing of the mucus-lined nasal cavity with a light saline answer quickly after testing constructive for COVID-19 can considerably cut back hospitalization and dying, investigators report.
They are saying the method that can be utilized at residence by mixing a half teaspoon every of salt and baking soda in a cup of boiled or distilled water then placing it right into a sinus rinse bottle is a protected, efficient and cheap approach to cut back the chance of extreme sickness and dying from coronavirus an infection that might have a significant public well being impression.
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The irrigation, aka lavage, was not achieved by merely filling a sprig bottle with the saline answer and squirting it up your nostril. Contributors used one in every of two excessive strain gadgets: NAVAGE or Neilmed Sinus Rinse. The producer’s of these gadgets offered no less than partial funding for the examine.
