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By Jane Enright In the span of 12 months, Jane Enright endured three life-altering events, lost everything and hit rock bottom. She suffered a severe head injury and lost her speech (and business), her partner was in a bad accident and lost his memory, and cancer took her best friend of 40 years. After all […]
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We need better data  By Peter Smith, Andrew Curran and Letitia Davis From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health agencies around the world failed to collect the information we needed to truly understand the role of work and workplaces in the spread of the virus. We saw this failure in Canada, the United […]
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Identifying severity of osteoarthritis  Watch for a new grading scale to measure the severity of osteoarthritis in patients. Called OA-COM (which stands for Osteoarthritis—Cartilage, Osteophytes, Menisci) it uses Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The OA-COM grading scale will allow research to be conducted within very early or late-stage osteoarthritis, and enable
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A study of the international movement to value traditionally unpaid care roles Taking care of someone else is the difference between a society of sole operators and a community that nurtures each other. All societies that have survived have provided nurturing.  Many paid careers involve this gentle care of others, from the pilot who flies […]
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Presented by Faraz Vahid Shahidi, Institute for Work & Health Tuesday, April 12, 2022 11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Register for the webinar here Persons with disabilities face persisting inequities in the labour market arising from stigma, discrimination, and other structural barriers to employment. It is widely accepted that greater integration into the labour market
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Women participate less at conferences, even if gender-balanced Women are less likely to participate in proceedings at medical and scientific conferences, even with gender-balanced delegates, although simple interventions in conference design sparked a significant improvement in female inclusion, a study has found. Over the last few decades, women have comprised roughly
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