Health care is heading into Ponzi-scheme territory | Finding some cold comfort | Review of flu vaccine not as definitive as health officer suggests

Vancouver’s emergency patients can soon shop for fastest care online | Patients as customers: surfing for hospital emergency departments with shorter wait times | Online ER wait times coming to Vancouver Coastal Health | Go online to shop for fastest ER care | North Vancouver terminal cancer patient goes to extreme lengths to find treatment

Flood douses dozens of surgeries at LGH | Homeless: City, province open new housing complex in Vancouver | Moustaches mean a lot this November

Flu shots should be mandatory for health care workers | Family doctor shortage to worsen | North Shore leads BC in fall injuries | When to retire from driving | Pique’s Alison Taylor wins top BC journalism award

Tenant raises stink over pigeon filth | Aging population prompts request for more beds | No quick cure for an ailing system

Breaking through the silence | Mother receives cochlear implant | Lions Manor residents find room at inn | There are many conditions that traditional Western medicine cannot cure | Wave of P3 promotion misses the point | BC announces province-wide colorectal cancer screening program | Most people with HIV are harmless

Operation delayed | Flu clinics underway on the North Shore | Advancements in addiction treatment bypass Canada | Time for people with disabilities to “Make the rules in our own lives.” | Much-maligned hospital food to get revamp from VIHA

Vancouver’s Rainier Hotel will continue to be served | MS progression is not just a one-way street | Thousands live with disfigured bodies, play waiting game for treatment | Flu clinics open in Richmond, despite vaccine halt | Hospital tab comes as $600K surprise | Healthy living: Eating on $26 a week

Wrongful death | Hand-held device provides a cholesterol warning

New cholesterol skin test raises expert concerns | Should sugar and fat be the new tobacco? | Medicare’s front door, primary health care, needs a remodel | Listen to the nurses