Transplant

• Double-lung transplant patient recovering, but says B.C. system still needs work

  When Global News first met Christina Derksen-Unrau, she was unable to walk more than a few steps and was constantly short of breath due to asthma, emphysema and lung cancer.

  Health

  Aug 22
  
• Game-changing technique could boost organ transplants in Canada. Here’s how

  In a Canadian first, Lawson Health Research Institute successfully employed a groundbreaking technique to optimize and transplant organs from donors after circulatory death.

  Health

  Jun 27
  
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• Woman who couldn’t afford to stay in Vancouver for lung transplant meets with B.C. premier

  A B.C. rural transplant patient met with Premier David Eby on Thursday to discuss monetary issues that transplant patients face when having to go to a major city for care.

  Health

  Apr 12
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• Doctors transplant gene-edited pig kidney into living human for 1st time

  Doctors in Boston have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, the latest experiment in the quest to use animal organs in humans.

  Health

  Mar 21
• B.C. patients forced to travel need more financial support, advocates say

  Every year thousands of patients living in rural communities must travel from their homes to major centres where specialized care exists, often facing steep out of pocket costs.

  Health

  Mar 19
• B.C. woman says she can’t get transplant because of cost to stay in Vancouver

  Christina Derksen-Unrau needs a lung transplant but says she can't get on the list because she doesn't have enough money to live in Vancouver for post-operative care.

  Health

  Mar 18
• Organ donations and transplants in Canada rebounding to pre-pandemic levels

  Thousands of Canadians remain on the waiting list for an organ transplant even after new data shows donation and transplant rates are rebounding to near pre-pandemic levels.

  Health

  Dec 7, 2023
• B.C. woman suing Interior Health after tendon transplant mix-up

  Marilyn Rogers recieved a cadaver tendon transplant in 2021, but later learned that the donor tissue had been improperly stored.

  Crime

  Jun 15, 2023
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• ‘You get hope’: Green Shirt Day designer talks about her own organ transplant journey

  Brandy Hehn began her long journey when she was 17 and was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis.

  Canada

  Apr 7, 2023
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• N.B. woman a perfect match for boyfriend who needed kidney: ‘The gift of life is what she gave me’

  Brittany Hay and Colin Grieve were matched by friends and now, and now five years since that introduction, they share something even more special -- a kidney.

  Health

  Mar 18, 2023