King County may have first public SIS in the US, modeled on Vancouver’s Insite. With quotes from VCH addiction medicine director Dr. Ron Joe and Dr. Thomas Kerr, director of Addiction and Urban Health Research Initiative at B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

Dr. Julio Montaner, B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS director will be a guest at event hosted by Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network for Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week 2016.

Vancouver Coastal Health says the planned expansion of a hospice in North Vancouver will create a first-of-its-kind facility for palliative care services in B.C.

It has been a deadly year in BC with an epidemic of opioid overdoses, many linked to the toxic narcotic fentanyl. Emergency departments under VCH have handled nearly 4,700 illicit or unknown drug overdoses this year, and St. Paul’s has handled 70 per cent of those.

Critics are upset that the city plans to remove 84 parking spots on 10th Avenue near Vancouver General Hospital in order to build a separated bike

VCH and PHS Community Services Society launch Spikes on Bikes, a bicycle response unit to fight off overdose deaths.

Spikes on Bikes launched by VCH and PHS Community Services Society is an initiative aimed at curbing drug overdose deaths.

Brian Day, medical director of Cambie Surgical Centre, argues laws prohibiting doctors from practising both public and private health sectors should be struck down, along with prohibition on extra billing for services already covered by the provincial health plan.

Dr. Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BCCFE) and pioneered the AIDS cocktail, says people with HIV still face stigma and persecution, even in Canada.

Writer from Burnaby says that the “average wait time” reported for an MRI test in B.C. can’t be 24 weeks, because he’s been told he will have to wait 56 weeks at VGH.