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Meet your mighty kidneys this Kidney Health Month

March is Kidney Health Month in Canada. If you haven’t yet considered the way your mighty kidneys impact your overall health, now is the time. Kidneys are often misunderstood and their value to overall health underestimated. Kidneys are vital organs with an important role, i...

Complaints Policy

Guiding Principles It is in the interest of all parties that complaints are dealt with promptly and resolved as quickly as possible. Review of complaints is fair, impartial and respectful to all parties. Complainants are advised of their options to escalate their complain...

Nutrition

What you eat has a direct effect on your kidneys, so your diet is a very important part of your treatment plan for chronic kidney disease.  Your dietary needs are unique to you, and they depend on a lot of factors, including your kidney function, your other medical conditions...

The Expert Center for Complement-Mediated Rare Diseases

The establishment of the Expert Centre for Complement-Mediated Rare Diseases ( Centre d'expertise sur les maladies rares médiées par le complement ) is a translational research initiative out of CHU Sainte-Justine aiming to transform the understanding, diagnosis, and trea...

Sucralose as a Way to Enhance rEgulatory T cells : The SWEET trial

Co-Applicant(s):  Caroline Lamarche, Fabio Zani Lay Abstract Background: Kidneys are essential organs in our body. When they do not work, patients require machines to help them or receive a new kidney from a donor (transplantation) to survive. Thus far, transplantation ...

Finding Your Living Kidney Donor

Organ donation saves lives and restores health. A kidney transplant is not a cure, but it offers the best possible improvement to health and quality of life for many people living with kidney failure. The only other life-sustaining treatment available is dialysis, which artif...

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 F...

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