VCH Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Patricia Daly, says the concentration of prevention services in the Downtown Eastside is making a difference for drug users in the area.

An English springer spaniel and his handler have been so successful at detecting a superbug at Vancouver General Hospital that a second dog is now being trained.

A special employee of Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)—Angus, the C. difficile sniffing dog– is being recognized today for his unique ability to save lives.

FDA warned patients and doctors to avoid a risky, experimental procedure involving a tiny balloon promoted as a treatment for multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.

Though Vancouver’s overdose crisis shows few signs of slowing, the city’s chief medical health officer, Dr. Patricia Daly, says the concentration of prevention services in the Downtown Eastside is making a difference for drug users in the area.

Interview with Dr. Patricia Daly, VCH’s chief medical health officer, on the ongoing overdose crisis.

A gift of $1.5 million helps add additional expertise in a lung cancer research project, led by Dr. Stephen Lam, at the B.C. Cancer Foundation.

Dr. Brian Toyota, a world-renowned medical and cancer expert, and Head of Neurosurgery at UBC, joins the Segra Biogenesis Corp advisory board.

In July 1980, a newborn was discovered outside Lions Gate Hospital. Janet Keall, who has recently discovered three siblings who, like her, were abandoned at birth by their mother, believes Kenneth Allan could be a fourth.

A Squamish mother rushed her recently suicidal nine-year-old child to Squamish General Hospital emergency ward, but says she couldn’t get immediate help.