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Improving the safety of ventilation

Scientists at UHN have tested a method to protect critically ill patients who need help breathing with a ventilator against complications such as damage to the diaphragm and lungs. When patients rely fully on machines to breathe, their diaphragm – the main muscle used in...

The hospital engineer’s role in on-site nitrous mitigation

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is an important contributor to climate change; not only is it a greenhouse gas (GHG), it is also an ozone-depleting agent. It is the third most significant GHG in the atmosphere after CO2 and methane, and is the largest remaining threat...
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Health and social data are essential infrastructure – and big science

Canada has long invested heavily in big science projects like telescopes and particle accelerators — but largely ignored health and social data as a form of critical infrastructure. In a recent commentary, Michael Wolfson argues it’s time to change that. He says health and social data are essential to economic growth and effective policymaking, yet provinces continue to withhold valuable datasets that could drive national research and innovation. Wolfson calls for the federal government to use its constitutional powers to mandate better data sharing and to reform research funding so large-scale, pan-Canadian data initiatives can finally take shape.