Homelessness programs | Gold medalist teams up with VCH | BC mental health system | Effectiveness of flu vaccine

Mainland Chinese men avoid mental health help | Troubled teen and mother | Youth recreational opportunities | Expired infant formula | B.C. doctors earn slightly less than national average | VCHA told to stop punishing workers who call in sick | Temporary clinic opens to medical orphans | A UBC grad on building a new mental health safety net

Flu season ugly as forecast | Are you planning to get a flu shot, or do you have all the antibodies you need? | More nurses would improve LGH care | Hospice beds definitely needed

BC spends little on healthy living, disease prevention despite its priority status, auditor general says | Downtown Community Court cares for mentally ill | Flu cases spike in province

Fraser Health declares lethal flu outbreak a health hazard, invokes special measures | City takes ‘sensitive’ approach to tackling hoarding | It’s up to B.C.’s doctors to prevent long waiting times, government says | Who wants this high profile $400,000 job in health care? Top BC executive on way out | Health officials remind residents to get flu shot, lower rates

Mentally ill man’s arrest angers family

Nurses protest hospital staff levels | Flu crippling emergency rooms around the Lower Mainland | Sea to Sky welcomes New Year’s baby

An inconvenient truth: we don’t have the best health care system | Addiction service’s gamble pays off: RASS is in better financial health after ending contract

St. Paul’s Hospital pioneers cutting number of routine chest X-rays | Virus makes rounds at residential care home | Parents, brother welcome News Year’s baby for 2013 | It’s turning into a nasty, deadly, perfectly normal flu season

Health authorities want input on Metro Vancouver port issues | Woo Fay Krushnell found | Update: Bus driver locates missing man who needed medication at UBC | Parking police get free parking | Healing hospital care puts patients in good hands