It's easy to say that you would help, but actually doing something becomes a bit more challenging. After a discussion with my family, I filled out th...
Helene Campbell is discovering that being Canada's most high-profile organ donor advocate allows her to get up close with some celebrities and very pe...
When I was a toddler and was limping instead of walking, my parents began to suspect something was wrong. I went to numerous specialists to try an...
VANCOUVER - Organ transplants in British Columbia were up to a record-breaking level in 2012 and wait times for some procedures were down as BC Transp...
No one can control what events will shape our world in any given time period. But collectively we can choose what stories we allow to shape our memory. That's why murderer Luka Magnotta was the wrong person for the Canadian Press to choose as Canada's 2012 Newsmaker of the Year.
No, this isn't something out a horror movie — it's just a unique way to understand organ donations. The eye-catching three-part ad, courtesy of ...
When my dad passed away it was by far the worst day of my life. All the anti-rejection drugs that were keeping his heart pumping were slowly deteriorating his other organs. We knew this day would eventually come, but none of us really wanted to accept it. Really, how can anyone be prepared to lose their parent?
Half of children with heart failure will die or need a heart transplant, an outcome that has prompted new guidelines for emergency room doctors to hel...
OTTAWA - An organ donation campaign started by a feisty young Ottawa double-lung transplant recipient now has new friends — a lot of them.Facebook i...
Craig and Marc Kielburger, co-founders of Free The Children and Me to We, seek solutions to significant social problems. In this excerpt from their bo...
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick is suspending its organ donation program for up to two weeks after a Health Canada Inspection found problems with document...
Facebook's recent push to promote organ donation in the United States caused registrations to soar; a similar social media initiative could soon be la...
On one side, there is joy: up to eight people and their families whose prayers for a life-saving or life-altering transplant have been answered. On th...
TORONTO - A young woman whose inspirational advocacy for organ donation has garnered attention around the world gushed with gratitude Thursday at her ...
TORONTO - Helene Campbell is back at her “home away from home” in Toronto.A blog post from her mother, Manon, says the 21-year-old double lung tra...
TORONTO - The Ottawa woman who had a double-lung transplant last month is out of the hospital.Helene Campbell tweeted about leaving hospital just befo...
WINNIPEG - Manitobans who want to be organ and tissue donors can now register online.Any resident of the province 18 or older can register to become a...
The reality of our parent's mortality was something we couldn't (as much as we wanted to) avoid any longer. We just wanted to find something -- anything -- that could, at the very least, buy him a few more years. We all had a collective awakening. What seemed so important before became just so laughably trivial.
Organ donation rates have stagnated in Canada since 2006, according to a new report. The Canadian Institute for Health Inform...
CBC -- A Sussex, N.B., father received an extraordinary gift from his son just in time for Father's Day — a new kidney. Arthur Cruickshank, 67, h...
