A new, on-demand treatment Connections clinic hopes to provide more timely help for those struggling with illicit drug addiction. With quotes from Dr. Ron Joe, associate medical director, addiction services at VCH.

Sea to Sky Corridor residents in need of surgery may not have to wait as long thanks to the opening of a second operating room at Squamish General Hospital.

Despite a series of damning reports from B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie, seniors didn’t rate a single mention in last week’s budget speech.

Study led by Dr. Andrea Townson, VCH researcher, shows that unconscious biases may be affecting hospital patient care.

Five Vancouver Canucks have shown symptoms of the mumps and at least four will not play Saturday against the San Jose Sharks.

The mumps outbreak could prevent as many as five Canucks from playing against San Jose. With quotes from Dr. Reka Gustafson, VCH medical health officer.

Vancouver Canucks’ Troy Stecher confirmed to have mumps while four other players are suspected. With quotes from Dr. Reka Gustafson, VCH medical health officer.

More than 800 Vancouver police officers and staff are trained to administer the nasal spray form of naloxone. So far, only one officer has used the drug on an overdose victim.

Writer points out that after Vancouver’s Insite opened, there was no increase in crime, violence, drug trafficking, or number of intravenous drug users in the community.

Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for VCH, was in the Vancouver Courier’s podcast studio last week to discuss the overdose crisis and legalization of drugs.