LIVERight Health Forum Sponsor – Gilead Sciences Canada

LIVERight Health Forum The LIVERight Health Forum is an event that provides valuable information and support for those living with liver disease and their caregivers. Over the years, thousands of people have attended the event that was previously hosted in Vancouver by the Canadian Liver Foundation’s British Columbia-Yukon chapter. This […]

Stroller Spotlight: My New Lease on Life

Stroller Spotlight: Nancy-Eaton Doke

Help support people living withAutoimmune Liver Disease, like Nancy.Continue below to read her story. STROLLER SPOTLIGHT A New Lease on Life My liver story begins in July 2000. My boyfriend, Jeremy, and I decided to take a summer holiday to Edmonton and Calgary to visit family, and during our trip […]

Stroller Spotlight – A Happy Ending

Help support children and families living with Biliary Atresia. Continue below to read Bianca Pengelly’s story. When I was just two weeks old, I was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia, a condition in which the bile ducts in and around the liver are damaged. The damage means that bile can’t flow […]

Stroller Spotlight – Honouring Larry’s Legacy

Stroller Spotlight: Rita Helming

Help support people with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis and those who care about them. Continue below to read Rita Helmig’s story about her husband, Larry. STROLLER SPOTLIGHT Honouring Larry’s Legacy My husband, Larry Gibson, was diagnosed with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) in late 2006. He had been to multiple doctors for […]

Stroller Spotlight – 89 and Counting

Stroller Spotlight: Francis Ho

Help support awareness and education of liver disease, like Dr. Francis Ho. Continue below to read how he has advocated for people living with liver disease. My name is Dr. Francis Ho, and I am a retired family doctor living and working in Vancouver.  I am 89 years old and […]

Stroller Spotlight – Fighting the Stigma of Liver Disease

Stroller Spotlight: Abby McKinnon

Help fight the stigmafor people living with liver disease.Continue below to read Abby McKinnon’sstory about her father, Dale. STROLLER SPOTLIGHT Fighting the Stigma of Liver Disease: My Family Legacy It was mid-July in 2013 that my father, Dale, went to see his family doctor with harsh pains in his abdomen. […]

Stroller Spotlight – Paying it Forward

Stroller Spotlight: Heidi Deans

Help support people living with autoimmune liver disease, like Heidi Dean. Continue below to read her story. STROLLER SPOTLIGHT Paying it forward In April 2016, not long after I turned 40, I began experiencing horrible pain along my sternum. My doctor sent me for a series of tests, and, after […]