Gwen DuBois-Wing
@gdubois-wing.bsky.social
Interested in heart-led leadership, health & health systems | Dog mom 🐾 | Nature lover | 🩷🐘 | Executive/Leadership coach (PCC) | 🇨🇦 | #uglydogs. Opinions my own.
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I was blessed by a visit by this beauty today 🦅❤️
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From robotic surgery performed 7,000 miles away to the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease, 2025 has been a year full of medical breakthroughs. Here are seven of the biggest innovations in the health and science space this year.
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Groundbreaking robotic surgery, Alzheimer's blood test: 7 of the biggest medical breakthroughs in 2025
From robotic surgery performed 7,000 miles away to the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, 2025 has been a year full of medical breakthroughs.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
From robotic surgery performed 7,000 miles away to the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease, 2025 has been a year full of medical breakthroughs. Here are seven of the biggest innovations in the health and science space this year.
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Happy retirement, snoozing & snacking, Hunter!! 🐕❤️
December 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Happy retirement, snoozing & snacking, Hunter!! 🐕❤️
“Joy appears in cracks and crevices, in the smallest openings—a shaft of winter sunlight through grey clouds, a stranger’s unexpected kindness, the warmth of a hand reaching across a divide.”
New article: When Sorrow Arrives Like An Uninvited Guest, Searching For The Softest Places To Settle
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When Sorrow Arrives Like An Uninvited Guest, Searching For The Softest Places To Settle
As 2025 draws to a close, we stand at the threshold of something new—a year unwritten, its pages blank and waiting.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“Joy appears in cracks and crevices, in the smallest openings—a shaft of winter sunlight through grey clouds, a stranger’s unexpected kindness, the warmth of a hand reaching across a divide.”
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Thank you to all the healthcare professionals & workers working this Christmas & throughout the holidays. 🙏 🎄
As many of us enjoy the holidays with family& friends, let’s recognize all the nurses and health-care professionals who are spending it with patients, residents & clients.
Reply to this post and show some love for all the health-care professionals working over the holidays.❤️
Reply to this post and show some love for all the health-care professionals working over the holidays.❤️
December 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Thank you to all the healthcare professionals & workers working this Christmas & throughout the holidays. 🙏 🎄
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Reposted by Gwen DuBois-Wing
A study in Nature finds that five groups of disorders share most of their genetic risk in a screen of 14 psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. The findings could help to improve diagnoses and lead to new treatments that work across several conditions. 🧬 🧪
Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature
Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
A study in Nature finds that five groups of disorders share most of their genetic risk in a screen of 14 psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. The findings could help to improve diagnoses and lead to new treatments that work across several conditions. 🧬 🧪
“Doctors are reporting emergency departments “rammed with flu cases” and the rate of weekly flu-related hospitalizations is increasing rapidly…with the highest rates in adults 65 and older and children aged four and under.”
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Is the 'superflu' as bad as it sounds? Here's what to know about the new mutated variant surging in Canada
Flu activity across Canada is increasing quickly, driven by a novel, mutated strain of H3N2 influenza A.
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December 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“Doctors are reporting emergency departments “rammed with flu cases” and the rate of weekly flu-related hospitalizations is increasing rapidly…with the highest rates in adults 65 and older and children aged four and under.”
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❤️ these posts about therapy animals!
November 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
❤️ these posts about therapy animals!
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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. rolled up for Game 7 in a game-worn jersey from Canadian hockey icon Marie-Philip Poulin.
Another instalment in my series as MLB•com's hockey correspondent:
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Another instalment in my series as MLB•com's hockey correspondent:
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Lucky jersey No. 2? Vladdy dons game-worn hockey hero's jersey ahead of Game 7
TORONTO -- Another Game 7, another hockey jersey for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. This time, he’s repping Captain Clutch.
Guerrero walked into Rogers Centre Saturday afternoon wearing the red Team Canada jer...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. rolled up for Game 7 in a game-worn jersey from Canadian hockey icon Marie-Philip Poulin.
Another instalment in my series as MLB•com's hockey correspondent:
www.mlb.com/bluejays/new...
Another instalment in my series as MLB•com's hockey correspondent:
www.mlb.com/bluejays/new...
👍 agreed! @thebeaverton.com
Blue Jays fans definitely gonna need that extra Daylight Savings hour tomorrow
Blue Jays fans definitely gonna need that extra Daylight Savings hour tomorrow
TORONTO - With Daylight Savings rolling clocks back an hour the same night as the Blue Jays face off against the L.A. Dodgers in a climactic World Series Game 7, Canadian baseball fans are confident t...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
👍 agreed! @thebeaverton.com
Shout out to Western U’s biochemistry professor Derek McLachlin whose chemistry lecture turned into a pop performance that has gone viral, w/ over 1.4 million views on TikTok. “His latest remix reimagined Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ as a lesson about ketone bodies.”
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Western University professor goes viral for educational parody of Ed Sheeran song
A Western University professor is hitting all the right notes with his students and on social media. A video of biochemistry professor Derek McLachlin turning a chemistry lecture into a pop performanc...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Shout out to Western U’s biochemistry professor Derek McLachlin whose chemistry lecture turned into a pop performance that has gone viral, w/ over 1.4 million views on TikTok. “His latest remix reimagined Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ as a lesson about ketone bodies.”
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www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...
“…recent surveillance data from Canada’s hospitals shows between 25 and 50 per cent of patients hospitalized with COVID were infected inside health-care facilities over the last two years.” In Canada, proactive masking has been instituted in hospitals in BC, Prince Edward Island & New Brunswick.
If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“…recent surveillance data from Canada’s hospitals shows between 25 and 50 per cent of patients hospitalized with COVID were infected inside health-care facilities over the last two years.” In Canada, proactive masking has been instituted in hospitals in BC, Prince Edward Island & New Brunswick.
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Take it from these artists, hopping on the Blue Jays bandwagon is the most fun you’ll have this fall
By Leah Collins
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/toronto-blue-jays-world-series-artist-tributes-9.6958725
Take it from these artists, hopping on the Blue Jays bandwagon is the most fun you’ll have this fall
By Leah Collins
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/toronto-blue-jays-world-series-artist-tributes-9.6958725
Take it from these artists, hopping on the Blue Jays bandwagon is the most fun youâll have this fall | CBC Arts
Theyâre cheering for Canadaâs team while capturing the excitement and emotion of the World Series. Check out these team tributes by illustrators including Gary Taxali, Stephanie Cheng and Carson Ting.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
CBC
Take it from these artists, hopping on the Blue Jays bandwagon is the most fun you’ll have this fall
By Leah Collins
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/toronto-blue-jays-world-series-artist-tributes-9.6958725
Take it from these artists, hopping on the Blue Jays bandwagon is the most fun you’ll have this fall
By Leah Collins
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/toronto-blue-jays-world-series-artist-tributes-9.6958725
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We’re thrilled to announce $14.5 million in new funding through the 2025 Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grants (PPGs), supporting cutting-edge research in sarcomas, bladder cancer, high-risk brain cancer and immunotherapies. Learn more:
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October 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.
October 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.
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@synapticure.bsky.social is hosting a webinar with Neuralink on 10/28. Sign up using the link below.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
@synapticure.bsky.social is hosting a webinar with Neuralink on 10/28. Sign up using the link below.
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Reposted by Gwen DuBois-Wing
The magnetoencephalography machine may look like a chic, space-worthy escape pod from Star Trek, but what it does is much cooler — literally and figuratively. 🧠
@michellegamage.bsky.social reports.
@michellegamage.bsky.social reports.
SFU Is Testing a New Mind-Mapping Machine to Help Epileptic Patients | The Tyee
The MEG takes non-invasive readings of electromagnetic fields while patients nap.
thetyee.ca
October 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The magnetoencephalography machine may look like a chic, space-worthy escape pod from Star Trek, but what it does is much cooler — literally and figuratively. 🧠
@michellegamage.bsky.social reports.
@michellegamage.bsky.social reports.
“The latest data from the Hospital Harm Project suggests that between 2024 and 2025, one in 17 acute-care hospital stays involved at least one harmful event. In a quarter of those cases, patients experienced more than one.”
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‘No blame, no shame’: Experts urge culture shift to reduce hospital harm
A new report shows preventable harm continues to be a significant issue in Canadian hospitals, affecting thousands of patients and adding pressure to the health-care system.
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October 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“The latest data from the Hospital Harm Project suggests that between 2024 and 2025, one in 17 acute-care hospital stays involved at least one harmful event. In a quarter of those cases, patients experienced more than one.”
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