A list of food-related articles. Mention of VCH’s Food Asset map.

Tips for emergency preparedness. With a mention of Lions Gate Hospital and quotes from VCH staff.

Flu prevention tips, including the flu vaccine. Mention of VCH’s webpage on flu shot clinics.

Dr. Martina Scholtens’ new book documents decade working as family physician at Bridge Refugee Clinic.

Diabetes Canada is adopting a diagnosis-and-treatment model of prevention pioneered by Vancouver-based AIDS researcher Dr. Julio Montaner.

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas-Taylor toured the Downtown Eastside with Defence Minister and Vancouver South MP Harjit Sajjan, visiting treatment centres and safe injection sites, including the Crosstown Clinic, Insite, and Vandu.

Leading Canadian experts in FH and patient groups host an open forum today at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, highlighting the need for screening in children of FH patients.

VCH Regional Direction of Prevention, Miranda Compton, discusses supervised consumption sites with Calgary Newstalk 770.

Vancouver Coastal Health’s START program helps people access treatment for opioid addiction in their homes.

This Saturday, federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor will be in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to visit ground zero of the worst public-health crisis in decades. The minister will visit VCH’s Crosstown Clinic. The article mentions that VCH seems content to double down on treatments that have not shown much success in stemming the tide of death and that may have even made the overdose epidemic worse.