Ask yourself… What do you know about JIA and other rheumatic disease research happening in Canada?

By |June 23rd, 2020|News|

 Moving Research Findings into Clinical Care  By: Dr. Elizabeth Stringer The Canadian Alliance of Pediatric Rheumatology Investigators (CAPRI) is a research network made up of pediatric rheumatologists and other researchers.  Past, present, and future research will lead to discovering new information about rheumatic conditions including long-term outcomes, medication side effects, ways to improve quality [...]

‘Is Team Cassie + Friends now a Canada-wide event?’ (and other great questions we hope will make you want to join our virtual team!)

By |June 9th, 2020|News|

‘Is Team Cassie + Friends now a Canada-wide event?’ (and other great questions we hope will make you want to join our virtual team!)  With Team Cassie + Friends now a 100% virtual event due to COVID-19, we’ve been getting some great questions from families, rheumatology teams and other friends wanting to learn more [...]

Champion for Kids: Meet Alexis of Team Cassie + Friends

By |May 27th, 2020|Stories|

Our Friend, Alexis, of Sherwood Park, AB is running in the virtual Calgary Marathon and Scotiabank Charity Challenge with Team Cassie + Friends. Alexis is passionate about creating videos and spreading awareness of JIA. Read her story and why she’s running for the 24,000 kids in Canada with juvenile arthritis and other rheumatic disease. [...]

Mental Health Week 2020: Alison’s journey with mental health and arthritis

By |May 7th, 2020|Mental Health, News, Teen Transitions, TMJ|

Alison Legge is a member of the Cassie + Friends Youth Leader Committee. She spoke at Cassie + Friends Family Day 2016 as a youth champion, speaking about the impact chronic disease has had on her mental health. A lot has happened since then, and Alison has learned she is not alone and there [...]

Lia vs. Lupus

By |May 1st, 2020|Lupus, Stories|

May is Lupus Awareness Month and we reached out to our friend, Lia who is 13 years living with lupus, a rare autoimmune disease. After being diagnosed in 2018, Lia believes everything happens for a reason and there is always a positive in all events of life. [...]

May is Lupus Awareness Month: What you need to know about this rare autoimmune disease.

By |May 1st, 2020|Lupus, News|

May is Lupus Awareness Month and we reached out to Dr. Lori Tucker of BC Children's Hospital to learn more about this rare autoimmune disease. Thank you, Lori for providing us with this important information. By: Dr. Lori Tucker Systemic lupus erythematosus (also known as ‘lupus’ or SLE) is a rare autoimmune disease.  It [...]

Cassie + Friends Featured in the Toronto Star to Make Sure Kids Are Part of the Conversation

By |April 9th, 2020|Advocacy, News|

How have you felt seeing some of the familiar medications used to treat Juvenile Arthritis and other childhood rheumatic diseases, like Lupus, suddenly in the news? With clinical trials and major news articles now talking about treatments like Actemra and Plaquenil as potential answers to the COVID-19 pandemic, we want to make sure the [...]

Cassie + Friends brings information and connection online for kids and families affected by childhood rheumatic diseases during COVID-19

By |April 8th, 2020|News|

During March and April, hospitals, labs and clinics across Canada quickly shifted gears to meet the new realities of patient care in the Covid-19 outbreak. As a result, many families were left with cancelled or postponed appointments, worries about medication shortages and questions about their child’s safety and well being. Now, during the second [...]

Meet Kaitlyn!

By |February 15th, 2020|London, Stories|

This is Kaitlyn - a karate-and-hiking-loving 9 year old. When Kaitlyn was five and a half years old her hands became so swollen that it concerned her parents. She told her parents that she was having on-and-off ankle pain. After months of looking for answers and visiting multiple doctors, Kaitlyn’s parents were referred to London’s [...]

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