Systematic review of treatment for pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis of the hand.

Aims: Pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis (PFT) comprises 2.5-9.4% of all primary hand infections.

What kind of a problem is loneliness? Representations of connectedness and participation from a study of telepresence technologies in the UK.

Loneliness is represented in UK policy as a public health problem with consequences in terms of individual suffering, population burden and service use. However, loneliness is historically and culturally produced; manifestations of loneliness and social isolation also require social and cultural analysis. We explored meanings of loneliness and social isolation in the UK 2020-2022 and considered what the solutions of telepresence technologies reveal about the problems they are used to address.