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💙⚾ Expert tips for Jays fans from Canada’s Hospital!

From calm minds to strong hearts, TeamUHN experts share their best advice to help fans stay playoff-ready.

Canada’s Hospital is cheering on Canada’s Team. Go Jays Go! 🏥🍁

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Canada’s Hospital is ready to cheer on Canada’s Team! 🏥🍁

The Toronto Blue Jays are in the World Series, and TeamUHN is all in! This is a great moment and point of pride for our city, our province, and our country.

Go Jays Go!💙⚾
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Jennifer Stinson receives Order of Merit from Canadian Nurses Association Jennifer Stinson, a senior scientist in child health evaluative sciences at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and professor in U of T's Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, has been recogniz...

Huge congrats to @jenstinson.bsky.social from @sickkidsto.bsky.social for receiving the Order of Merit from the Canadian Nurses Association. Very well deserved!

www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/j...

🎙️✨ Congratulations to Dr. @karenddavis.bsky.social, Senior Scientist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, on her recent interview on Pain Exchange, a podcast by the International Association for the Study of Pain!

▶️ Click the link below to listen to the episode! ⬇️

🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

The cover art, painted by the brilliant Kathleen Sluka, shows a stairway symbolizing the many steps toward truly individualized pain research built on understanding the biological processes and factors that shape patient-reported outcomes. #sciart #neuroart bit.ly/4opxhDw

We're extremely proud to announce #PAIN's 2025 supplemental issue: Advancing Pain Research and Management for the Next 50 Years. The entire issue is free to read on our website! bit.ly/3IQ6hOq

A special thanks to all the authors who contributed to this special issue, the leadership and vision of our Editor-in-Chief @karenddavis.bsky.social and all the scientists and clinicians who are paving the way to a brighter future for pain relief and management! bit.ly/3IQ6hOq

October’s #PAIN cover art is from Isler et al.’s new study. They find that spinal microglia become reactive and trigger hypersensitivity in response to combined optogenetic activation of nociceptive and nonnociceptive fibers. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/4nssUHO

Counting the days to @IASPpain’s World Congress on Pain 2026 in Bangkok? Make the wait easier by revisiting #PAIN’s collection of articles from the 2024 plenary speakers and be sure to submit your topical workshop proposals by Wednesday to be considered! bit.ly/3K7OuT6

Who’s more sensitive to pain, men or women? The answer may surprise you. As we learn more about how pain processing can vary between women and men, it might lead to better treatments.

see article here: wapo.st/4miPlOb

🤕 Did you know that September is #PainAwarenessMonth?

Dr. Karen Davis (@karenddavis.bsky.social), Senior Scientist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, was recently featured in a
@washingtonpost.com article looking at “who’s more sensitive to pain, men or women?

🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

Who’s more sensitive to pain, men or women? The answer may surprise you. As we learn more about how pain processing can vary between women and men, it might lead to better treatments.

www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

This #PainAwarenessMonth, we’re celebrating 50 years of #PAIN. Here's a rare glimpse of some recent print issues in EiC
@karenddavis.bsky.social's office. Can any of our subscribers beat this collection?

PAIN Awareness Month 1

This #PainAwanressMonth, celebrate PAIN’s 50th anniversary with us in recognition of its impact on pain research and management around the world. bit.ly/466vb3W

PAIN Awareness Month 2

The 50th anniversary of PAIN essay series highlights the life and work of past Editors-in-Chief—the first three are available for free right now for #PainAwarnessMonth! bit.ly/46mpCiT

YouTube video by Society for Neuroscience Logo Logic: Neuroscience 2025

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Individual differences in conditioned pain modulation are... : PAIN we examined the relationship between CPM and peak alpha frequency (PAF) and power in the dynamic pain connectome (DPC). In 68 healthy individuals who underwent resting-state magnetoencephalography and...

Our latest linking CPM with PAF journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the mysteries of chronic pain Jane Pauley talks with the author of "It Doesn't Have to Hurt" about the body's defenses against pain; and with Ed Mowery, whose decades-long experience with pain led to a revolutionary surgery and tr...

Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the mysteries of chronic pain - CBS News share.google/NLejLiBtZt96...

Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.

FDA may pull authorization of Pfizer's Covid vaccine for children under 5, company says The potential move to rescind authorization of Pfizer's vaccine could leave some kids in the U.S. with no available shots against Covid.

It would add to a string of recent efforts by U.S. health agencies to change and undermine immunization policy since Secretary Kennedy, a prominent vaccine skeptic, took the helm.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/f...

Judge tells NSF to reinstate suspended UCLA grants Ruling comes as government seeks settlement with UCLA on larger set of suspended grants

A federal judge has ordered the NSF to restore about 300 grants to UCLA that it suspended on 30 July, saying the agency violated a preliminary injunction she issued in June after NSF terminated a different set of grants to researchers across the UC system. https://scim.ag/4oz2FAh

ENTRUST-PE: endorsement by senior editors of 15 Pain and Anaesthesiology Journals We are beyond delighted that the ENTRUST-PE framework has been endorsed by the Editors in Chief of 15 International Pain and Anaesthesiology journals. Those editors are copublishing, across the journa...

Delighted that the editors of 15 Pain and Anaesthesiology have chosen to endorse and amplify the ENTRUST-PE framework. More info here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/entrus...

@iasp.bsky.social @efic.bsky.social @britishpainsoc.bsky.social @ukrio.bsky.social @coarassessment.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Editorial commitment to trust and integrity in science:... : PAIN An abstract is unavailable.

Editorial commitment to trust and integrity in science: implications for pain and anesthesiology research journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Thank you to everyone who joined TeamUHN at the 2025 Toronto Pride Parade! 🌈

Progress in 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, including in health care, has resulted from decades of work by those who refused to be invisible. We are proud and grateful to walk alongside our staff and patients!

Proud to work @uhn.ca

📰✨Congratulations to Dr. Karen Davis (@karenddavis.bsky.social), Senior Scientist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, for her recent feature in The Pain Issue, a magazine by the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine!

🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

Iranian missile strike devastates two buildings at Israel’s Weizmann Institute Hundreds of scientists have lost labs, equipment, and specimens

The conflict that began last week when Israeli drone and missile attacks destroyed nuclear facilities and killed top officials and weapons scientists in Iran has also devastated a top Israeli science institution, the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. scim.ag/44lkDhq

CNN reporter visits hospital struck in Israel | CNN CNN’s International Diplomatic Editor, Nic Robertson, reports from Beer Sheva, Israel, where a hospital was struck during an Iranian attack. Iran said it was targeting an Israeli intelligence and comm...

CNN reporter visits hospital struck in Israel

www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/w...