The province’s Seniors Advocate discussed long-term care and home care in B.C. during a speech last week in Sechelt. VCH’s plans with Trellis were avoided but increasing the number of long-term beds was noted.

Two long-time addicts are the first participants in a Crosstown Clinic experiment to graduate to abstinence. With quotes from Crosstown’s physician lead, Dr. Scott MacDonald.

Vancouver drug treatment programs are featured in the Daily 360 including Crosstown Clinic, the Mobile Medical Unit and Insite.

An eight-day stretch in Vancouver saw more people die of a drug overdose in areas outside the Downtown Eastside, which has been the epicentre of the drug death crisis in the province.

A Lions Gate Hospital patient comments about staff arriving late because of busy commutes to work.

A Surrey woman has been given a two-and-a-half year wait for an MRI following brain surgery. “I burst out laughing when I saw the date – August 14, 2019,” says Linda McClure.

A new Canadian study has concluded that a procedure to open narrowed veins in the neck and chest is ineffective in relieving the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and works no better than a placebo treatment. But some neurologists and MS patients who say the treatment worked wonders for them say more research is still needed.

A long-awaited Canadian patient trial of a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis known as “liberation therapy” has concluded the procedure is ineffective and should be avoided.

A controversial treatment known as “liberation therapy” is ineffective in patients with multiple sclerosis, according to Canadian findings from one of the most rigorous studies of the procedure to date.

A surgical treatment pioneered in Europe that was sought out by thousands of desperate people with multiple sclerosis has been categorically debunked by Canadian researchers.