Tag Archives: contact

Health Insurance and Demand for Masking, Testing and Contact Tracing – New Data from The Commonwealth Fund

The coronavirus pandemic occasioned the Great Lockdown for people to shelter-at-home, tele-work if possible, and shut down large parts of the U.S. economy considered “non-essential.” As health insurance for working-age people is tied to employment, COVID-19 led to disproportionate loss of health plan coverage especially among people earning lower incomes, as well as non-white workers,… Read More »

What is it like to be a covid-19 contact tracer and what do they do?

By Adam Vaughan Irish Army cadets are being trained to assist with covid-19 contact tracingPAUL FAITH/AFP via Getty Images The UK has announced plans for a large-scale contact tracing programme to help the country exit the coronavirus lockdown, with reports that thousands of people are to be recruited. Other countries are already running such operations.… Read More »

Foot Position Prior To Contact Influences Risk Of Sprained Ankle

According to a study, how the foot is positioned prior to ground contact when walking or running could increase risk of sprained ankle, otherwise known as a twisted ankle.[1] The results of the research found that people who have a history of repetitive ankle sprain demonstrated lower clearance heights between their feet and the floor… Read More »

Alphabet stops its project to create a glucose-measuring contact lens for diabetes patients

Verily, Alphabet‘s life sciences arm, has paused work on its so-called “smart lens” program, which was aiming to put tiny sensors on contact lenses to measure blood sugar levels in tears.

Lost contact found in woman's eyelid 28 years later

The woman’s mother reportedly remembered that she had been hit in the eye with a shuttlecock 28 years earlier, during a game of badminton, and had then complained of a lost contact. (BMJ Case Reports 2018) Nearly three decades ago, a 14-year-old in the United Kingdom got hit in the eye during a game of… Read More »