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Dialysis Symptom Control-Restless Legs Syndrome (DISCO-RLS) trial

Lay Summary Patients with kidney disease are often excluded from research studies examining new drugs and technologies because of their kidney dysfunction. This puts kidney disease patients at a disadvantage despite commonly having other illnesses independent of their kidn...

Position Statements on Organ Donation

The following statements reflect our position on a variety of issues pertaining to organ donation. They serve to support our advocacy work to ensure that health practices and policies are in place that will optimize organ donation in Canada. Leadership, Coordination and Fund...

Promoting Kidney Recovery after Acute Kidney Injury Receiving Dialysis

Lay Summary Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a rapid decline in kidney function, and it is a common complication for patients in the hospital. Dialysis is an important treatment for patients with severe AKI, but we do not know which patients are likely to recover after severe AK...

Prevent Fractures for Renal Disease-1 (PREFERRED-1)

General Audience Summary Preventing bone fractures in hemodialysis with denosumab: a pilot study for a large clinical trial (PREFERRED-1) Background: One in 10 women and one in 20 men who receive hemodialysis (a treatment for kidney failure which filters waste and water ...

Facilitating Successful Transitions to Home Dialysis Therapies

Lay Summary Identifying the Support Needs and Care Priorities of Patients and Families During the Transition to Home Dialysis More Canadians are getting kidney failure and will need treatment to replace their kidney function (dialysis). There are many dialysis options, one ...

QUALIFY CKD-to-HOME

General Audience Summary Prospective Changes in Quality of Life and Frailty in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Transitioning to Home versus in-Center Dialysis (QUALIFY CKD-to-HOME) Background: For people with advanced kidney disease who choose to have dialysis, deciding ...

Collective cell migration in urinary tract morphogenesis and disease

Lay Summary Our laboratory works on the identification of genes affected in patients with “Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract” or CAKUT. This disease group is not well defined and includes patients with only one kidney, smaller kidneys, obstruction of the...

Investigating Pathways to Promote Life Participation in Kidney Failure

Lay Abstract My research studies how to help people with kidney failure participate in life activities that are important to them. People with kidney failure are living longer than ever before because of treatments like dialysis. However, they often find it hard to complete...

Kidneys and Women's Health

The theme of World Kidney Day 2018 was Kidneys and Women’s Health: Include, Value, Empower. World Kidney Day and International Women’s Day were commemorated on the same day in 2018, offering us the opportunity to reflect on the importance of women’s health and specifically...

Kevin's Story

My involvement with The Kidney Foundation began even before the disease touched me personally. It didn’t matter that I didn’t have kidney disease myself (or so I thought!). What mattered was that people I cared about – and even complete strangers – needed help coping with the ...

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