Author(s): Cheligeer C; Southern DA; Yan J; Wu G; Pan J; Lee S; Martin EA; Jafarpour H; Eastwood CA; Zeng Y; Quan H;

Objectives: Adverse event detection from Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) is challenging due to the low incidence of the event, variability in clinical documentation, and the complexity of data formats. Pulmonary embolism as an adverse event (PEAE) is particularly difficult to identify using exi ...

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Author(s): Sim M; Gebre AK; Dalla Via J; Reid S; Jozani MJ; Kimelman D; Monchka BA; Gilani SZ; Ilyas Z; Smith C; Suter D; Schousboe JT; Lewis JR; Leslie WD;

Abdominal aortic calcification (AAC), a subclinical measure of cardiovascular disease (CVD) that can be assessed on vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) images during osteoporosis screening, is reported to be a falls risk factor. A limitation to incorporating AAC clinically is that its scoring req ...

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Author(s): López RR; Ben El Khyat CZ; Chen Y; Tsering T; Dickinson K; Bustamante P; Erzingatzian A; Bartolomucci A; Ferrier ST; Douanne N; Mounier C; Stiharu I; Nerguizian V; Burnier JV;

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are secreted by most cell types and play a central role in cell-cell communication. These naturally occurring nanoparticles have been particularly implicated in cancer, but EV heterogeneity and lengthy isolation methods with low yield make them difficult to study. To ...

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Author(s): Corbière M; Mazaniello-Chézol M; Lecomte T; Guay S; Panaccio A; Giguère CÉ;

Background: Common mental disorders (CMDs) are highly prevalent in workplace settings, and have become a significant public health challenge. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of PRATICAdr, a web application facilitated by a Return-to-Work Coordinator (RTW-C), with a focus on reducing sick leave duration and preventing relapse in individuals wit ...

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Author(s): Smith EE; Phillips NA; Feldman HH; Borrie M; Ganesh A; Henri-Bhargava A; Desmarais P; Frank A; Badhwar A; Barlow L; Bartha R; Best S; Bethell J; Bhangu J; Black SE; Bocti C; Bronskill SE; Burhan AM; Calon F; Camicioli R; Campbell B; Coll ...

Lecanemab and donanemab are monoclonal antibody therapies that remove amyloid-beta from the brain. They are the first therapies that alter a fundamental mechanism, amyloid-beta deposition, in Alzheimer disease (AD). To inform Canadian decisions on approval and use of these drugs, the Canadian Con ...

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Author(s): D' Arcey J; Torous J; Asuncion TR; Tackaberry-Giddens L; Zahid A; Ishak M; Foussias G; Kidd S;

Background: Digital mental health is a rapidly growing field with an increasing evidence base due to its potential scalability and impacts on access to mental health care. Further, within underfunded service systems, leveraging personal technologies to deliver or support specialized service deliv ...

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Author(s): Yazdanpanah Moghadam E; Sonenberg N; Packirisamy M;

Microglial cells, or brain immune cells, are highly dynamic and continuously migrate in pathophysiological conditions. Their adhesion, as a physical characteristic, plays a key role in migration. In this study, we presented a microfluidic chip combination of two assays: a microglial BV2 adhesion assay and a wound-healing migration assay. The chip could cr ...

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Author(s): Jamet-Lange H; Duguay S;

Lesbians have long turned to digital media and technologies for information, support, and to self-represent sexual identity in ways that have the capacity for building communities and gathering publics and counterpublics. TikTok is a short video platform popular with young people, which has increasingly seen the participation of comparatively older users. ...

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Author(s): McComb S; Arbabi-Ghahroudi M; Hay KA; Keller BA; Faulkes S; Rutherford M; Nguyen T; Shepherd A; Wu C; Marcil A; Aubry A; Hussack G; Pinto DM; Ryan S; Raphael S; van Faassen H; Zafer A; Zhu Q; Maclean S; Chattopadhyay A; Gurnani K; Gilber ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies targeting B cell-restricted antigens CD19, CD20, or CD22 can produce potent clinical responses for some B cell malignancies, but relapse remains common. Camelid single-domain antibodies (sdAbs or nanobodies) are smaller, simpler, and easier to reco ...

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Author(s): Bdair H; Kang MS; Ottoy J; Aliaga A; Kunach P; Singleton TA; Blinder S; Soucy JP; Leyton M; Rosa-Neto P; Kostikov A;

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a noninvasive functional imaging modality that involves in vivo detection of spatiotemporal changes in the binding of radioactive pharmaceuticals (a.k.a. PET tracers) to their target sites in different organs. The development of new PET tracers commonly invol ...

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Author(s): Deslauriers F; Gosselin-Boucher V; Léger C; Vieira AM; Bacon SL; Lavoie KL;

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and its prevention policies have taken a toll on Canadians, and certain subgroups may have been disproportionately affected, including those with non-communicable diseases (NCDs; e.g., heart and lung disease) due to their risk of COVID-19 complications and women due to excess domestic workload associated with traditional ...

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