BC is still reeling from the negative health impacts caused by the once widespread use of asbestos. With quotes from Dr. Christopher Carlsten, VCHRI researcher.

Hamilton social service agencies are pushing for a permanent or temporary safe injection site. In Vancouver, fatal overdoses near Insite decreased 35 per cent.

Alberta will fund phased implementation of a supervised injectable opioid agonist therapy program. Mentions Providence Health Care’s Crosstown Clinic.

Health Minister Adrian Dix is hopeful the actions being taken now point to a better future both for individuals who were impacted and also for health research.

While Lions Gate Hospital was changing to electronic patient records on April 28, VCH asked ambulance drivers to consider taking patients to other hospitals. With quotes from Caeli Turner, VCH director of public affairs.

A new study finds that a three-minute version of a brain stimulation treatment is just as effective as the standard 37-minute version for hard-to-treat depression. The study was conducted with Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia.

VCH psychologist Lori Brotto promotes mindfulness as a technique for women’s sexual health.

Three children who allegedly contracted E. coli from a petting zoo at Vancouver’s Pacific National Exhibition will have to wait at least another year-and-a-half to have their day in court. The children allege that the PNE, VCH, and the District of North Vancouver did not take reasonable steps to limit an E. coli outbreak at the petting zoo.

Profiles of patients who’ve had heart transplants, including one VGH patient.

An American professional snowboarder has survived being buried alive by an avalanche in the backcountry near Whistler, B.C.