An emergency meeting was scheduled in Oregon after it was reported that human fetal tissue from B.C. was being incinerated for power in the state.

Health Shared Services BC says aborted fetuses and other hospital waste will continue to be incinerated even as one Oregon plant bans health waste from B.C. because it may contain human fetuses.

An Oregon waste-to-energy facility has refused to accept medical waste from B.C. after learning it includes tissue from aborted fetuses.

Six leaders from the field of medicine have been in inducted in the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, including Dr. Max Cynader, a neuroscientist at VCH.

Health Minister Terry Lake confirmed that a health-care worker was terminated last year for declining to get a shot or wear a mask in patient-care areas. With a quote from Dr. Suni Boraston, director of the VCH Travel Clinic.

An Oregon county commission has ordered an incinerator to stop accepting boxed medical waste to generate electricity after learning the waste it’s been burning may include tissue from aborted fetuses from B.C.

The Ages & Stages Fair is taking place for the 11th year in Powell River. With mention of involvement from VCH.

The YWCA has released the names of its nominees for the 2014 Women of Distinction Awards, including Victoria Bernstein, director of the Post-Operative Cardiac Surgical Unit at VGH.

Police have charged a man for a homicide in 2009. Mentions Jean Budden, a VCH social worker who met with the victim in 2006.

Dr. Eitan Prisman, an otorhinolaryngologist at VGH says the patient populations for oral cancer and oropharyngeal cancer are changing.