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Healthy people, communities, and populations

Putting mental health in reach for low-income Nova Scotians

Mental health care can feel out of reach for Nova Scotians without private insurance or the means to pay out of pocket. ŷ��’s Centre for Psychological Health offers a new solution, providing free care to low-income Nova Scotians while giving PhD students the hands-on training they need to stay and practice in the province.

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Receiving treatment at ŷ��'s Centre for Psychological Health

Healthy people, communities, and populations

Breakthrough in heart treatment best practice sparks global rethink

For millions living with life-threatening heart arrhythmias, the go-to treatment has long been medication. But a��ŷ�� cardiology researcher has demonstrated that a minimally invasive procedure should be the first-line treatment.

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Dr. John Sapp performs a catheter ablation, an effective treatment for ventricular tachycardia

Healthy people, communities, and populations

One in five kids endure chronic pain. A new pain standard will soothe it

ŷ��’s Dr. Christine Chambers and her colleagues at Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) are working with hospitals to adopt Canada’s first Pediatric Pain Management Standard.

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Climate tech and clean energy

This Nova Scotia battery is set to crack India's scooter market

Dal startup Zen Energy pivoted their business to double down on ŷ��’s unmatched battery science. Now they’re setting up factory operations in India and prepared to serve one of the biggest markets in the world.

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Climate tech and clean energy

Taking the toxins out of wastewater treatment

ŷ�� researchers are set to transform wastewater treatment worldwide with a revolutionary system powered by the LED technology that lights up our phones. Slashing energy consumption, the new tech also eliminates the toxic mercury of current treatment processes.

Healthy people, communities, and populations

Empowering pharmacists to prescribe HIV prevention drugs

ŷ�� is collaborating with policymakers to make Nova Scotian pharmacists among the first in the country with the ability to prescribe the lifesaving medication.

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Climate tech and clean energy

Can this river help save us from climate change?

While pursuing research to restore salmon habitats,��Dr. Shannon Sterling��discovered an approach to carbon dioxide removal that put her at the forefront of the science and growing market demand to remove the gas from the atmosphere.