Today, nearly 49,000 Canadians are being treated for kidney failure. Of those, more than 57 per cent are on dialysis.
Dialysis is a process that removes excess water, solutes and toxins from the blood for people whose kidneys can no longer perform these functions naturally. The treatment typically involves four-hour visits to a dialysis unit, three times per week for the entirety of a person’s life.
Today, nearly 49,000 Canadians are being treated for kidney failure. Of those, more than 57 per cent are on dialysis.
Dialysis is a process that removes excess water, solutes and toxins from the blood for people whose kidneys can no longer perform these functions naturally. The treatment typically involves four-hour visits to a dialysis unit, three times per week for the entirety of a person’s life.
For women depending on steroids to treat severe asthma, their body’s estrogen may not only be preventing the treatment from working effectively, but making the asthma worse, according to a recent Western study.
Anthony Skelton knows a lot about the nature of well-being - perhaps that is why he has no hesitations taking over as Acting Director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy.
Doctors should consider a “family diagnosis” when it comes to treating children with epilepsy, as recent research has uncovered the potential for long-term mental-health challenges impacting the mothers of diagnosed children.
About 10,000 years ago, giant beavers roamed the North American continent, along with now-extinct woolly mammoths and mastodons. A Western study suggests why the big rodents went extinct.
Interested in learning more about active learning strategies to engage students in the classroom? Check out the one-day Spring Perspectives conference on May 15.
Applications are being accepted until May 12 for current, regular full-time staff interested in becoming Western’s United Way Sponsored Employee. The Sponsored Employee Program is a 16-week, full-time secondment, beginning Aug. 26 until Dec. 13, 2019.
Amid the very legitimate dire warnings from scientists and others about the future worsening impacts of climate change, there is also, unfortunately, a great deal of hyperbole about how much worse things will get. Often it is difficult to separate truth from mere speculation.
Find out how to prepare your family, community and our region to the coming climate shocks of the 21st century when Geography professor Gabor Sass takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
Communications and Public Affairs
Western University
Westminster Hall, Suite 360
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7
Tel: 519-661-2111 inside.western@uwo.ca
