December 2021 PKD e-News
Welcome to the PKD Foundation of Canada's December e-News! We have provided information important to helping you take action in your journey with PKD.To view the e-News in French click here!
Give the Gift of Hope
With 2021 drawing to a close, we hope you remember the PKD Foundation of Canada in your holiday plans and consider making a year-end gift to help advance Canadian research, advocacy and support for more PKD patients and their loved ones.
Jennifer Morgan, Halifax NS | Voices of PKD
"On December 29th 2020, I went for what I thought was just a routine blood work check up. Our family had been on a waitlist to find a family doctor for a few years and we finally were matched. Our new doctor sent me for blood work while she waited...
November 2021 PKD e-News
Welcome to the PKD Foundation of Canada's November e-News! We have provided information important to helping you take action in your journey with PKD.
Kristen Walsh, Lamaline NL | Voices of PKD
"Inspirational stories used to be just stories to me. We've all seen and heard them - you listen to a story about someone who has lost a limb, had a incurable diagnosis, lost their husband or wife, or had some form of tragedy and how they readjusted to their life."
October 2021 PKD e-News
Welcome to the PKD Foundation of Canada's October e-News! We have provided information important to helping you take action in your journey with PKD.
2021 Virtual PKD Summit
The PKD Foundation of Canada was proud to host it's first Virtual PKD Summit this past September! The summit consisted of 3 half days filled with educational events catered towards PKD patients and their loved ones, on September 3, 10th and 17th.
September 2021 PKD e-News
Welcome to the PKD Foundation of Canada's September e-News! We have provided information important to helping you take action in your journey with PKD.
September 12-18th is Living Donation Week!
Living Donation Week (#LDW2021), September 12-18, hosted by UHN - Centre for Living Organ Donation, is a national awareness week featuring free virtual events and activities focused on improving access and equity in living organ donation, profiling the work of Team Transplant, and celebrating our incredible living donors and transplant...
September 4th is PKD Awareness Day!
Once again, Health Canada is recognized September 4th as National Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Awareness Day - a special day devoted to raising awareness of this life-threatening, genetic disease.