A study published in Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation by a group of Albertan researchers led by Ms. Lianne Barnieh, supported by a Kidney Foundation Allied Health Doctoral Fellowship, explored for the first time in Canada the barriers to living kidney donation for eligible kidney transplant patients. 
A $200,000 grant has been provided by the Government of Alberta to the Kidney Foundation of Canada to establish a Living Organ Donor Expense Reimbursement Program in Alberta. The program will reimburse an Albertan who donates a kidney, partial lung or liver, for some costs associated with the organ donation process.
In a study funded by The Kidney Foundation and published in JAMA, patients with diabetic nephropathy taking high doses vitamin B showed a decrease in kidney function.
Saskatchewan residents waiting for a kidney transplant may have to travel to Edmonton for the operation.
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