Sudbury mother shares son's transplant journey to raise organ donation awareness
A Sudbury mother and a graduate student in science communication have come together to bring a powerful organ donation story to Northern MedTalks — a "TED Talk"-like event at Laurentian University where speakers share their stories touching on healthcare.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/medtalks-organ-donation-9.7166844?cmp=rss
Bella Brave’s mom backs province’s new organ donation campaign
Kyla Thomson, the mother of the late “Bella Brave,” from Swift Current, Sask., is urging people to join Saskatchewan’s online donor registry. Her daughter Bella received a life-saving bowel transplant but died a year later from unrelated complications.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7172432?cmp=rss
‘Part of my very being’: B.C. liver recipient meets donor’s mother
Benjamin Warner, 37, tragically died from a drug overdose in August 2024 and Holly said they were not surprised to learn their loving and lively son was an organ donor.
#Health #LiverTransplant #OrganDonation
https://globalnews.ca/news/11809493/bc-liver-recipient-meets-donors-mother/
Vancouver designer John Fluevog creates shoe to honour kidney donor
In 2025, Fluevog's decades-long battle with polycystic kidney disease came to a head and he learned he would need either dialysis or a transplant.
#Canada #Health #johnfluevog #JohnFluevogkidneyshoes
https://globalnews.ca/news/11806750/vancouver-shoe-designer-john-fluevog-shoe-kidney-donor/
Vancouver designer John Fluevog creates shoe to honour kidney donor
In 2025, Fluevog's decades-long battle with polycystic kidney disease came to a head and he learned he would need either dialysis or a transplant.
#Canada #Health #johnfluevog #JohnFluevogkidneyshoes
https://globalnews.ca/news/11806750/vancouver-shoe-designer-john-fluevog-shoe-kidney-donor/
Vancouver designer John Fluevog creates shoe to honour kidney donor
In 2025, Fluevog's decades-long battle with polycystic kidney disease came to a head and he learned he would need either dialysis or a transplant.
#Canada #Health #johnfluevog #JohnFluevogkidneyshoes
https://globalnews.ca/news/11806750/vancouver-shoe-designer-john-fluevog-shoe-kidney-donor/
Vancouver designer John Fluevog creates shoe to honour kidney donor
In 2025, Fluevog's decades-long battle with polycystic kidney disease came to a head and he learned he would need either dialysis or a transplant.
#Canada #Health #johnfluevog #JohnFluevogkidneyshoes
https://globalnews.ca/news/11806750/vancouver-shoe-designer-john-fluevog-shoe-kidney-donor/
Autoimmune diabetes & #transplant rejection arise when immune checkpoints fail. This study shows that blocking CD22 ligand-binding expands regulatory #Bcells & protective γδ #Tcells, suppressing type 1 #diabetes & prolonging #SkinGraft survival in mice @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/41t4KTS

#MASLD in kidney transplant recipients #KTR is associated with worse patient and graft survival

https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(26)02709-9/fulltext?rss=yes

#transplant #medicine #nephrology