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Ever wonder what its like to eat on a welfare budget? VCH’s Executive Director of Population, Ted Bruce, is trying to get a small glimpse of what it’s like by accepting a challenge to live on a food budget of $26 for one week.

On October 18, thousands of British Columbians will “Drop, Cover, and Hold On” in The Great British Columbia ShakeOut, the largest earthquake drill in BC history!

For each video view we receive at www.ItsDifferentNow.org between now and September 23rd 2012, $0.50 will be donated to the Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life Vancouver in support of Positive Living BC!

A free professional development workshop for clinical and community health practitioners. Log online to hear dr. Suzanne stewart speak live – all are welcome to listen!

Presented by Ella Garland September 25, 2012 2:00-3:00pm To join this webinar, use this link: http://bit.ly/PpTUSi If you are connecting by phone only, call-in toll number: 1-408-600-3600 Access code: 805 178 691 Password: Network10 Submitted by Aggie Black – Nursing Research Facilitator, VCH and PHC

For many breast cancer patients, chemotherapy drugs can literally be lifesaving, but they are also known to cause heart muscle damage in up to 60 per cent of patients. Known as cardiotoxicity, side effects includes scarring, abnormal contraction and relaxation, and even heart failure.

Protecting the heart in patients undergoing chemotherapy is critical…

No, it’s not a new fusion food. Mangoes and raw oyster are both topics in the September issue of VCH Health Watch Report. Find out about the recall of mangoes contaminated with Salmonella and why eating raw oysters is not recommended.

On September 14th, more than 2000 lab staff from Fraser Health, Providence Health Care and Vancouver Coastal Health will transfer their employment to the Provincial Health Services Authority, marking the completion of transfers into the Lower Mainland Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Services department.

Do you have an important practice-based research question that you want to answer?

Did you know that VCH Research Institute has an in-house grant program that enables staff and research clinicians to conduct clinical health research?

Our newly redesigned HIV website is going viral! www.itsdifferentnow.org features an inspiring video empowering people to get an HIV test so that Vancouver can be the epicentre of a movement that aims to end HIV. This week, Communications Arts, a popular visual communication publication, featured our website as its web pick of the day.Communications Arts’ website receives 3-million hits a month, so we’re excited about the potential for views for www.itsdifferentnow.org and our video.