Volunteer urges health authority to continue funding Marion Hospice beds | Are nurse practitioners the cure for BC’s family doctor shortage?

Food cart owner wants to wean Vancouverites away from disposable containers | News Hour – Norovirus spreading | Baby Oliver helps family ring in new year | The health of young men and boys

Contagious new virus strain hits B.C. with a vengeance | Norovirus outbreak hits Vancouver General Hospital | Contagious norovirus puts two areas of Vancouver General Hospital under containment | New Year’s baby makes her entrance less than three hours into 2013 | Baby Oliver helps family ring in new year | Honours, accolades as doctors and donors fight cystic fibrosis | Quadruple amputee making progress, but needs donations to buy prosthetic | Dependability of VCH is no small thing | At 94, the King of Swing Dal Richards brings Christmas to babies at St. Paul’s

Protestors mourn end of nonclinical treatment at Rainier Hotel | Not really the hap-happiest time of the year? | Councillors reconsider chickens on residential lots

Childhood abuse, life on street linked to use

The redeeming arc of Matt Ross’s life | Health Authority to shutter Rainier Hotel treatment program | Pilot projects aim to fill gaps | Coffins paraded to protest DTES drug treatment centre funding cuts

Funding to women’s shelter cut | Women-only recovery experiment: Did it work or not? | Rainier non-clinical treatment services still in dispute | Investing in our future | Norovirus hits Squamish Hospital | Case may make MDs reluctant to intervene

$1.6 M donated to St. Paul’s mental-health program for youth | Giving is the greatest gift of all | Missing women report calls for regional policing, points to “blatant errors” by police

Pilot project finds surprising number of HIV cases | Health at the speed of light | Royal hospital scandal shows patient privacy is a matter of ethics

Pilot project at Vancouver hospitals that tests on admission for HIV finds 30-plus patients with the disease | Dozens of patients diagnosed in local HIV testing pilot | News Hour – Photo disinfection | Preventing hospital infections | Light therapy causes sharp drop in hospital infections | Light therapy cuts post-surgery infections at VGH | Ondine Biomedical technology demonstrates successful results in reducing surgical site infections | Helipad report expected in the new year | SGH under the microscope