Clark Atlanta University, University of Texas at El Paso and Vancouver Prostate Centre, has been awarded a $1.5 million grant by the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program to develop ground-breaking drugs to aid in the treatment of prostate cancer.

Conflicting opinions regarding George Massey Tunnel replacement bridge among Richmond’s provincial election candidates. Richmond Hospital being seismically unsafe is mentioned.

Sechelt council gave second and third readings for a mobile home park expansion in Wilson. With quotes from Brian McFadyen, environmental health officer for VCH.

Sarah Blyth, of the Overdose Prevention Society in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, says her society now sees about 500 people a day, up from about 100 a day when they first opened.

The Providence Crosstown Clinic is trying to prevent overdose deaths but they only have capacity to treat 140 patients against an estimated 450 of those in need.

The mother of a 17-year-old Kelowna girl who died from an overdose in March said her daughter was turned away from an East Vancouver treatment centre before she could be saved.

Sechelt resident finds recent Trellis/Silverstone advertisement questionable and promotes the upcoming public forum on seniors’ care.

PPHC, a group opposed to the VCH plan to purchase long-term care beds in a private, for-profit facility in Sechelt, is holding an information meeting April 30.

VCH says the wait is ‘unacceptable’ and will be reviewing the case since a “number of unnecessary process delays were identified.”

The BC Nurses Union is calling for additional security at Pemberton health clinic. With quotes from Carrie Stefanson, public affairs officer at VCH.