Lorraine M. Martin, NSC president and CEO, and Joseph A. Reuter, Stericycle executive vice president and chief people officer, spoke to the media Monday morning to discuss the NSC’s new Opioids at Work Employer Toolkit. The toolkit, which will officially be released on September 18, includes more than two dozen resources for four specific groups found in a typical workplace setting: supervisors, HR professionals, safety professionals and employees.
Americans are living longer and working longer, resulting in an unprecedented transfor-mation of the workplace, according to the United States Senate’s Special Committee on Aging.
Pet owners surely actively care for their pets. And the reciprocal benefits from our pets surpass any costs, right? How do those benefits both reflect and influence AC4P behavior? Actively caring for pets can improve one’s quality of life, family culture, and the human condition.
There are cities around the world where a minority of motorcycle riders believe it’s a good idea to rev their engines repeatedly as they ride up and down the street, happily attracting attention with the ensuing racket.
"Legal blindness" is a definition used by the United States government to determine eligibility for vocational training, rehabilitation, schooling, disability benefits, low vision devices, and tax exemption programs. It's not a functional low vision definition and doesn't tell us very much at all about what a person can and cannot see.
Most surveys and studies indicate that the majority of people in the United States with vision loss are adults who are not totally blind; instead, they have what is referred to as low vision. You may have heard the terms "partial sight" or "partial blindness" or even "poor vision" also used to describe low vision. Those descriptions are no longer in general use, however.
Researchers compared visual acuity assessment with a novel smartphone app (Peek Acuity) and a standard method in 111 children (ages 3–17 years) who were referred to an ophthalmology clinic.
Children underwent monocular vision assessments with both methods, in random order. The app was used as follows: with the examiner holding the phone two metres away, the child indicated the direction of the arms of an “E” displayed on the screen, and the examiner swiped the screen in that direction.
Older adults aged 60 years and above with these conditions may have fewer years of life as well as healthy life compared to those with no impairments.
Out of the five physical senses, impairment in vision and hearing, especially simultaneously, may have the greatest impact on the health of older adults.
Vision therapy can help improve children’s reading levels, according to Dr. Julie Steinhauer.
Steinhauer is a developmental optometrists with 18 years of experience. She uses syntonic phototherapy and traditional in-office vision therapy to correct vision problems.
Steinhauer specializes in helping children with learning-related vision problems. She said the average child improves three to seven grade levels in reading comprehension following 10 months of vision therapy.
Noise complaints about helicopters flying over New York City are on course to reach a record level this year.
But helicopter industry leaders and public officials can’t agree on the reason.
Some blame a few city residents lodging the bulk of complaints. Others say the rise is caused by unregulated helicopter tours flying from New Jersey or a surge in flights to the Hamptons.