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Enhancing marathon safety: The role of low-dose aspirin in cardiac arrest prevention

Arthur J. Siegel, Medical Director at MGH Internal Medicine Associates, Belmont, MA, USA tells us how low-dose aspirin can support primary prevention of marathon-related cardiac arrest in middle-aged men with coronary atherosclerosis.
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Agriculture: Harnessing AI for healthier soils

David Green, Executive Director, and Maite Caballero, Senior Researcher from The U.S. Sustainability Alliance, argue that AI technologies pave the way for healthier soils in agriculture.
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Moving past animal experiments to understand human neurological disease

Richard J. Miller, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, says that the belief monkeys and other animals are essential for performing translationally useful research for human neurological disease is outdated and incompatible with 21st-century science.
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Understanding and supporting neurological conditions among the incarcerated

Samuel Han and Audrey Nath discuss neurological conditions among the incarcerated, who they argue are a medically underserved population.
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RNA and DNA flipons in health and disease

Flipons are the next step in DNA research. What they are, their role in DNA and RNA coding, their impact on medical science, and their relation to the immune system are discussed here.
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Reshaping the discourse on women’s voices in metal music

Lori Burns, Professor at The University of Ottawa, walks us her research on reshaping the discourse on women’s voices in metal music.
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Dementia prevention: Raising awareness about dementia and risk reduction

We hear from Dr Anthony J. Levinson, who is part of an academic group developing evidence-based online resources to complement dementia prevention strategies and support care partners.
Detailed photography of constructional material with asbestos fibres. Health harmful and hazards effects. Prolonged inhalation of microscopical fibers causes fatal illnesses including lung cancer.

Exposure to Libby Amphibole: The clinical picture of autoimmune disease

Karen Lee Morrissette and Jean C. Pfau from the Center for Asbestos-Related Disease discuss the clinical presentation and complexity of the autoimmune disease progression among those exposed to Libby Amphibole.
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The future of dentistry: Exploring the latest advancements in dental imaging

Advancements in dental imaging over the past two decades have been remarkable, such as cross-polarization OCT; Yihua Zhu and his team at the University of California, San Francisco, have been investigating different diagnostic imaging methods.
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A music and mental health research clinic

The University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research at The Royal details the context and challenge of a music and mental health research clinic.

A crisis in workplace mental health injuries… And in work itself

Dr Mélanie Dufour-Poirier, Associate Professor at the University of Montreal’s School of Industrial Relations, discusses opportunities to safeguard employees’ mental health injuries and wellbeing through union involvement.
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Sex-based labour market segregation and women’s perceptions of entrepreneurship

Here Professors Tonoyan, Strohmeyer, and Jennings investigate sex-based labour market segregation and women's perceptions of entrepreneurship.
Note: Peer-reviewed academic articles from scholarly journals were selected on the ProQuest search engine platform. Articles with keywords appearing in their abstracts (ab) were extracted using the following parameters: ab (Gender OR Female OR Woman*) AND ab(Stereotype* OR Discriminate* OR Bias* ) AND ab (Entrepreneur* OR New Venture OR Founder OR Self-employed* )

The gender stereotyping of entrepreneurship

Professors Jennings and Tonoyan distill prior research and chart avenues for future research.
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Reducing data volume in big data: Parallel processing based data filtering techniques

Professor Shikharesh Majumdar from Carleton University examines reducing data volume in big data, focusing on parallel processing based data filtering techniques.

Harnessing AI for enhanced learning: Insights from the robotics academy

How technology is tailoring personalised learning experiences for the AEC sector.
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Canadian workers at risk: Removing barriers to treatment for public safety professionals (PSP)

Gregory S Anderson, from Thompson Rivers University and Helen Dragatsi, from Government of Canada speak to us about removing barriers to treatment for Canadian workers at risk.

Impacts to address sexual violence in Canada and internationally

Shaheen Shariff, Ph.D. is James McGill Professor and Project Director of iMPACTS, which focuses on addressing sexual violence in Canada and internationally.
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Engineered endosymbionts for cellular control

Christopher H. Contag from the Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering (IQ) at Michigan State University discusses the potential of engineered endosymbionts as biologically encoded remote controls for regenerative medicine.
Three open bottles of prescription medication.

The extent and impact of the opioid crisis in Canada

The opioid crisis in Canada has been an issue for nearly a quarter of a century. Here, Norm Buckley and Jason Busse from the Michael G DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care, and the National Pain Centre discuss the issue, its effects both general and on specific communities, and what can be done about it.
Figure 1: Early research at Purdue University in the Webster lab that led to the formation of Nanovis, which now has over 3,000 FortiFixTM pedicle screws inserted in humans with no cases of implant failure, according to the Maude database. The industry standard of pedicle screw failures lies between 5 – 10% depending on the data assessed.

Opinion: Do universities help or hurt innovation?

Do Universities help or hurt innovation? Find out in this 25-year academic entrepreneur’s anecdotal perspective of starting companies and developing implants. Thomas J. Webster shares his opinion here.

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