Seismic solution
Global BC
One of the solutions being presented to make sure St Paul’s hospital survives an earthquake involves installing a rubber foundation.
Approach ovarian cancer differently, widower urges
Leader Post (also carried by Times Colonist, Canada.com, Postmedia News)
Research shows that most of the high-grade “serous” cancer responsible for 90 per cent of deaths from ovarian cancer actually starts in the Fallopian tubes. Gynecologic oncologist Dr. Sarah Finlayson of the Ovarian Cancer Research Program at Vancouver General Hospital is quoted.
Insite enflames indoor smoking controversy
24 Hours Vancouver
The Portland Hotel Society, which has been fighting for an inhalation room at Vancouver’s Insite for years, is sympathetic to the plight of the Haro Park retirement home’s elderly residents, who’ve been forced out on a street-side bench to have a cigarette after their smoking room was shut down last month.
Prince George police shooting victim was veteran suffering from PTSD
Vancouver Sun
The man fatally shot Monday night by police in Prince George was undergoing treatment at the BC Operational Stress Injury clinic in Vancouver. The victim’s sister said her brother may have been suicidal at times, but his doctor never considered him a threat to anyone, and she openly questioned what she called the RCMP’s excessive use of force.
BC ferret study no reason to avoid influenza vaccination
Vancouver Sun – Editorial
Findings from Dr. Danuta Skowronski of the BC Centre for Disease Control are not unimportant, but they need to be put in perspective. The most important caution is that the findings shouldn’t be taken as any kind of an argument against getting a flu shot.
Forcing health care workers to get flu shots draconian
Vancouver Sun – Letter to the editor
The latest research demonstrates that we really don’t understand the immunology – in spite of the pharmaceutical companies’ claim that we do.
Supportive housing facility opens in Dunbar
CKNW
Lorna Howes, Director of Housing-Vancouver, comments on the opening of a new supportive housing facility on the west side.