Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside gets new lease on life | Mastectomy patients have options on surgery day | Dozens step up for Welfare Food Challenge | Breastfeeding is best

Life and death questions: Canadians waiting too long to decide end-of-life treatment | Census: Aging population a potential health-care time bomb | Dick Vollet leaves Street to Home for St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation

HOpe Centre construction begins | Lions Gate Hospital Extension | Thank you for local cardio rehab | Foster wants more treatment for anorexia in Edmonton

Whooping cough continues to spread in Vancouver | Helipad’s landing status remains a concern | Drug user dies at Vancouver’s supervised injections site/housing facility | Focus on palliative care, not suicide: doctor

Canadian study tracks MS patients after “liberation treatment | What’s your blood pressure? | $330,000 raised by Chinese-Canadians

300 mentally ill could lose social housing as study ends | After a bitter battle, LPNs to join BC Nurses’ Union | Patient journeys tell our story | Sub-hour surgery takes days to get done

Social housing sites increase number of formerly homeless tenants | Should laws force HIV-positive Canadians to disclose their status to partners? | Failure to disclose HIV status not always a criminal offence, Supreme Court rules | Cochlear implants hit 30

The real problem with Canadian health care

Michael Smith Foundation received $48 million for cancer, diabetes research | The truth about dying in Vancouver

In praise of profits and health | VCH Dizzy Clinic