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Trillium
Gift of Life Network
Multiple
Organ Retrieval and Exchange Program of Ontario
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Leslie
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As
a journalist and broadcaster for over 20 years, Leslie
Jones brings a wealth of experience to her
on-air
roles on TVO.
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Your
Health Online - Season 4
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Welcome
to a brand new season of Your Health
Join us for a Special Hour-Long Report on Organ
Donations Tuesday September 24 at 7:00
pm
Friends for Life
Right now there are more than 1700 people in Ontario waiting
for an organ transplant - four times as many people as there
are donors.
Traditionally donor organs come from cadavers but with the
shortage there's another option... at least when it involves
kidney or liver failure. It's called a living donor transplant.
Most often the donors are family members. But what if there's
no one in the family who's suitable? Would you give your
friend a liver?
Last
year the transplant team at London Health Sciences Centre
wouldn't even consider an unrelated donor... then they met
Terry and Ted.
In the Studio
As we detail in the documentary - living donors may eventually
account for one third of all transplants. So the majority
of donated organs will always have to come from cadavers.
And right now Ontario is facing a critical shortage.
To assess the state of organ donation and some solutions
to improve the numbers, Leslie is joined by Dr. Andrew Baker,
chair of the Organ Donation Task Force and Medical Director
of Trauma and Neurosurgery at St. Michael's Hospital in
Toronto. And Dr. Robert Buckman is an oncologist and - new
this season - a contributing editor here on Your Health.
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TVO, and is repeated Wednesdays following the View
From Here, between 11 and midnight, and on Saturdays
at 2:00 pm.
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October
1
Simple
Solutions
You go to the hospital to get better… right? Well,
not always. Hospitals have long been hot beds for breeding
bacteria. You used to be able to catch deadly diseases like
typhoid and cholera there.
Thankfully, we don’t get those anymore. But what many
of us don't realize is that thousands of Canadians are still
getting sick and dying every year from infections acquired
while in hospital; the very place that’s supposed
to make us better.
There are guidelines to cut down on infections, but hospitals
don’t have to follow them. So what can you do to stay
healthy while in hospital?
The solutions are simple.
HRT Debate
A recent groundbreaking study on hormone replacement therapy
was stopped when researchers found a high incidence of breast
cancer. But behind the headlines there was startling information
about HRT and its effect on women's hearts. Here to bring
us up to date on that study and other developments in research
on the heart is Dr. Rob Myers. He's a cardiologist at Sunnybrook
and Women's College Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
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