BC researchers call for free HIV drugs after study shows decrease in infection | BC leading the way in HIV-AIDS fight, but other provinces slow to follow | Test all for HIV, doctors urge | Doing more harm than good in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

At Home– If this place wasn’t here, I’d be dead | At Home: It’s almost like you’ve got friends | BC’s AIDS strategy credited for decline in cases | Take charge of your health | Aboriginal organization blames suicide pact on “apartheid” service delivery

Offer routine HIV testing for all, Canada’s top medical journal says | “At Home” and thriving, for now, but support for homeless study ends soon | Control group a necessary evil | Helen Mussallem was a decorated, celebrated, altruistic activist | Praise for St. Paul’s | South Asians do not choose boys over girls but community cam still work to improve birth ratio

“At Home” and thriving, for now, but support from homeless study ends soon | An urgent need for hospital renewal | Care and support go both ways | Doin’ it right, put that cigarette down | Suicide pact discovered among Vancouver youth | Grey area for mental health | A snowball effect on emergency care

Flu shot policy for health-care workers sparks backlash | The time to rebuild St. Paul’s is now | Blood tests could replace biopsies by 2016 | Adjusting to life after prostate cancer | Foundation donates funds for telehealth program | Complex care facility receives donation

Chronic pain patients interviewed in hospital closet | Lions Gate Hospital set to post wait times | BC’s child poverty rate improves, but just barely: report | Aran Lewis has had three kidney transplants | The trials of home dialysis with Mark Darling

“If I was a horse, they would have shot me by now.” | Rainier resident worries about loss of Vancouver hotel’s addiction programs | Scientist fires latest shot in mandatory flu vaccine debate | Many of society’s problems go hand in hand

Flu vaccine protects the vulnerable | Don’t let the dispute fool you — get a flu shot | BC living donor transplants | A perfect match in every way | A chain of faith, a gift of life | Act like a man? Well, not if you want to live a healthier life | Behind Richmond Hospital’s operating room doors | Better home support for dying patients in Vancouver would improve hospital wait times

Potentially 7,000 orphaned patients on Coast | Doctor shortage reaching critical mass | Nurses object to new rules on flu shots | There’s insufficient evidence to force vaccinations or masks | There’s insufficient evidence to force vaccinations or masks

British Columbians call on Facebook to protect kids from online predators | West Van won’t annex community over water woes | Referendum needed on policing of marijuana in B.C