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B.C. Students call for opt-out organ-donation system in the province
High-school students in Nanaimo have created a petition asking the provincial government to move to an opt-out organ-donation system.
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Graphic novel helps teen transplant patients navigate life after surgery
U of A student creates story of 16-year-old transplant recipient who has to save Edmonton from mutant earthworms.
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A ‘selfless’ stranger offers Coquitlam SAR volunteer a kidney
At 25, Michael Coyle discovered that he had a genetic disease that would leave his kidneys riddled with cysts by age 50. He said he is adopted so he had no idea that kidney disease ran in his family. But what really threw him was what happened when he asked for help finding a potential organ donor on social media. He got a message from a stranger within days who offered him a kidney.
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Doctor is now the patient, and blogs her transplant experience
She’s now the patient, recovering from a heart transplant and it’s giving her a whole new perspective. Alin Gragossian, 31, is a third-year resident in the emergency room and plans to do her fellowship in intensive care.
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Brother to brother: Yukoners return home after kidney transplant
Lymond and Tytus Hardy have always been close as brothers, but Lymond says they’re even closer now. “I finally got a part of him in me — it’s his kidney!”
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