Karen Brown has advocated for elementary school teachers, Black educators and single mothers. Now, after her kidney disease took a turn for the worse, she’s advocating for herself and the hundreds of Ontarians waiting for a transplant.
Donor lungs stored at 10°C remained healthy and viable for transplant up to four times longer compared to storage at the current standard of around 4°C.
By Ana Fernandes When Dawn Ethier looks back at the past decade of her life, it is a blur. The ordeal of taking several medications, almost a hundred pills per day, constantly having to measure mineral levels in her blood, and several visits to hospital was extremely taxing for the Ottawa police officer and mother […]
Canadian doctors say they have cured a patient with a severe and disabling disorder with a parathyroid transplant from a deceased donor. Dawn Ethier, a mother of four and police officer in Ottawa, is the first in North America and one of perhaps two in the world given new parathyroid glands that have eliminated her debilitating symptoms.