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Our newly redesigned HIV website is going viral! www.itsdifferentnow.org features an inspiring video empowering people to get an HIV test so that Vancouver can be the epicentre of a movement that aims to end HIV. This week, Communications Arts, a popular visual communication publication, featured our website as its web pick of the day.Communications Arts’ website receives 3-million hits a month, so we’re excited about the potential for views for www.itsdifferentnow.org and our video.

A new study, co-authored by Dr. Larry Goldenberg, urologic surgeon and researcher at the Vancouver Prostate Centre at VGH and head, Department Urologic Sciences at UBC, has shown that prostate cancer patients who are given a “drug holiday” have the same survival rate as the continuous treatment group, and a far better quality of life.

This 28-bed tertiary mental health facility is part of a regional plan to meet the need for specialized mental health care in our communities.

Qmentum Quarterly, Quality in Healthcare provides an avenue for sharing expertise, innovation, and leading practices across Canada.

All staff across the Lower Mainland, especially frontline workers are encouraged to complete the confidential LMC Housekeeping Survey by October 12, 2012. It takes only 10 minutes and it’s anonymous!

November 30 – December 1, 2012 at the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel, Vancouver. This is a unique leadership development program and a great opportunity to come together to learn, problem solve, network and address issues and challenges specific to LTC in Canada. Early bird deadline October 12.

How best to prevent a stroke or stroke reoccurrence is an important concern for cardiac and stroke patients and their caregivers.

Now, an international team led by Dr. Oscar Benevente, neurologist and research director of the Stroke and Cerebrovascuar Health Program at Vancouver Coastal Health and professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia, has shown a potential treatment – a combination of aspirin and clopidogrel, both common blood thinners – does not prevent recurrence of a common type of stroke, and may even pose serious risks.

The deadline is coming up for the design contest for our My Health My Community project. The future website for the VCH public engagement project is currently blank – waiting for a digital Degas or pixilated Picasso to make it come to life. We’re looking for graphic design students, to design a logo and/or brand, a look […]

Join us on September 27, 2012 from 2:00-3:00 PM for the Nursing Education and Research Rounds webinar on “Nursing Student Placements: A Health Authority Perspective on Barriers and Facilitators”. This webinar will be presented by Angela Wolff (Director, Clinical Education, Professional Practice and Integration, FHA & Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC School of Nursing). See the […]