Category - Kidney & Renal

Four-year-old Ferris Backmeyer has Mainzer-Saldino syndrome — a rare disorder involving kidney failure, vision loss and misshapen bones, which she was diagnosed with just days following her birth. (Photo credit: Kamloops This Week)

Kidney & Renal • Kidney Failure • News Releases and Coverage

Fundraiser for Ferris

April 20, 2021

ACTION transplant project

Kidney & Renal • Kidney Failure • Transplant

Taking ACTION on cultural barriers to living donor kidney transplant

March 19, 2021

Ryan Smith of Lavington, an eighth-round selection of the San Jose Sharks in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft, is hoping someone will step forward and be tested as a potential kidney donor. (Photo credit: Vernon Morning Star)

Kidney & Renal • News Releases and Coverage

Lavington man, former WHL player hopes to score new kidney

March 18, 2021

Arthritis • Autoimmune Disease • Diabetes • Gestational Diabetes • Heart • Heart Attack • High Blood Pressure • Immunology • Kidney & Renal • Pregnancy • Research • Skin Health

It’s time to talk about women and heart disease

February 10, 2021

Corticosteroids may not be necessary as part of a calcineurin-based multiple drug immunosuppressive regimen in kidney transplant recipients, according to investigators. (Photo credit: Renal and Urology News)

Kidney & Renal • News Releases and Coverage

Early Steroid Withdrawal Does Not Worsen Long-Term Kidney Graft Survival (SPH Dr. John Gill)

February 9, 2021

(Photo credit: CTV News)

Kidney & Renal • News Releases and Coverage

‘I’m very hopeful’: Mother of two seeks living kidney donor (SPH Dr. Jag Gill)

January 29, 2021

Jolene Smith is seeking a living kidney donor (Photo credit: Global News)

Kidney & Renal • News Releases and Coverage • Polycystic Kidney Disease

Surrey mother desperately seeks kidney donor (SPH Dr. Jag Gill)

January 8, 2021

Bleeding Disorders • Hematology • Kidney & Renal • Kidney Failure • Our People

Nurse Practitioners are bridge between nursing and medicine

November 30, 2020

DR. MARC ROMNEY, Medical Microbiologist, St. Paul's HospitalMedical Director, Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC), Providence Health Care (Vancouver).

COVID-19 • Diabetes • Heart • High Blood Pressure • Infectious Diseases • Kidney & Renal • Lung • pneumonia • Research

St. Paul’s’ sepsis expertise has greater significance in COVID-19 pandemic

September 11, 2020

Kidney & Renal • News Releases and Coverage

Mother of five living with Chronic Kidney Disease in dire need of donor (SPH)

July 15, 2020