Dr. Mark Tyndall, B.C.’s deputy provincial health officer and the executive medical director of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, says that scaling up programs to distribute pharmaceutical-grade opioids to substitute illegal drugs for high-risk users is needed to stem the opioid crisis.

Vancouver city council could add one more protected bike lane to Gregor Robertson’s legacy as mayor with a vote next week on a proposal for the Cambie Bridge. From January 2016 to July 2017, VCH reported more than five minor injuries per kilometre travelled on the bridge deck.

The article mentions Dr. Patricia Daly’s update on the opioid crisis, as well as VCH and Vancouver Chinatown Foundation’s joint rezoning proposal for 58 West Hastings

Since the Rapid Access Addiction Centre opened in October 2016 at St. Paul’s, it has served 1,500 patients from many communities and many walks of life.

Next Tuesday, Vancouver city council will hold a public hearing on a housing project to be constructed at 58 West Hastings. VCH will be the partner agency in charge of on-site healthcare facilities.

An Albertan woman says that she is touched by the kindness of strangers who stepped up after she was repeatedly victimized by thieves while visiting her dying brother, who is a patient at St. Paul’s Hospital.

Health minister says hospital IT projects in Nanaimo, Vancouver too big, too expensive.

An Alberta woman visiting her dying brother at St. Paul’s Hospital can’t believe her car has been broken into three times in less than three weeks.

Ian Pope was transferred twice to find out if he met criteria for assisted death. While doctors say they would have met in his hospital room, St. Paul’s would not allow it.

Dr. Suni Boraston, medical director of VCH’s travel clinic says a new shingles vaccine offers more benefits than Zostavax, the drug approved more than a decade ago.