Victoria veteran turns to social media in hopes to receive kidney transplant and share his story
Eric James is a 15 year veteran in the Canadian Armed Forces who had to go on leave due to his ongoing kidney failure. His struggle with kidney failure has caused him to take to social media to put his plea for a donor out to the world. In 2017, James was diagnosed with kidney […]
Chronic kidney disease affecting many older Canadians
Study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal examines increasing incidence of kidney disease Listen to this article 00:02:46 A new report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) is examining the problem of why Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is affecting as many as 40 per cent of the elderly population in Canada and other developed countries. Over […]
Kidney Paired Donation program hits 1,000 transplant milestone
One thousand patients in Canada have received kidney transplants thanks to the kidney exchange program led by Canadian Blood Services, in collaboration with Transplant Manitoba – Gift of Life and other living donation and transplant programs across Canada. These transplants, facilitated through the Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) program, represent 1,000 people whose lives have been […]
Love transplanted: N.B. woman gives gift to boyfriend through kidney donation
Brittany Hay uses one word to describe the moment she found out she was a perfect match to donate her kidney to her boyfriend — overwhelming. “At first, you kind of don’t believe that it would actually be him and I but obviously, the stars aligned,” said Hay. Hay and her boyfriend Colin Grieve live in Smithfield, […]
Quebec Cree expand dialysis options in territory
Harriet Shem says home dialysis has improved her quality of life so much. The Chisasibi, Que., resident used to have to go to her local hospital three times a week for four hours each time during business hours to undergo hemodialysis treatment. She would miss many hours of work each week and was unable to travel […]
Whitehorse woman travelling back and forth to Vancouver for hemodialysis
A Whitehorse woman says she’s exhausted from having to fly back and forth to Vancouver for hemodialysis treatment. Dawn Jennings was diagnosed with cancer in 2014. Complications from her illness led to kidney failure; once a couple of years ago and a second time in May. “I went down for a nap and woke up […]
Kidney Transplant Rates Stubbornly Resist Systems Intervention in Canada
PHILADELPHIA — A multicomponent intervention in Canada designed to overcome barriers that prevent kidney transplantation and living donation failed to increase access to either. Despite a high rate of intervention uptake among the patients randomized to that group, they had no greater rate of completion of four key predefined steps toward receiving a kidney transplant […]
‘There wasn’t a second thought’: Brothers promoting living organ donation
A Manitoba man who received a living kidney donation from his brother is wanting people to be aware that the option is available. When he was 10 years old, Kevin Settee, an Anishinaabe/Cree photographer and filmmaker from the Fisher River Cree Nation, was diagnosed with kidney disease. “It was pretty difficult as a 10-year-old to […]
Why organ donations are declining and how governments are reacting
Canadians support organ donation after death but fewer are registering for the practice, leaving hundreds of people dying while on waitlists each year. To combat the trend, the federal government passed Bill C-210 in 2021, allowing provinces and territories to add the option of signing up for organ donation when filing taxes. Ontario and Nunavut recently opted […]