Aging and population growth in B.C. will drive an almost 60-per-cent increase in new cancer cases in the next 15 years and the province needs a plan to cope with costs and other demands related to the projected growth.

“In a stunning election decided by just a single vote, private medicine pioneer Dr. Brian Day got the nod Tuesday as the 2015/15 president-elect of Doctors of BC.”

The RMOW has been forced to make drastic changes to the Whistler village pedestrian walkways around (VCH’s) Medical Centre heliport.

A ceremony was held last week to mark the completion and operation of the Seymour-Capilano Water Filtration Project. With quotes from Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for VCH.

The writer takes issues with the tactics used by the union organizing drivers at SN Transport, which provides non-medical patient transfers for the Lower Mainland health authorities.

Dr. Shimi Khang, a VCH specialist in child mental health says we need to get our children into nature more often to keep them healthy.

In the same week that the University of B.C. saw another five Aboriginal students graduate from its medical school, the New York Times published a piece bemoaning the shortage of black doctors

“In what largely looks like a PR stunt to correspond with World No Tobacco Day, Whistler Blackcomb, the company that owns the ski resort, announced last Friday it will be banning all forms of smoking on its property as of the end of the month.”

The change in home support hours from Vancouver Coastal Health is part of a move to follow established guidelines more closely, said Bonnie Wilson, director of home and community care for the health authority.

“Resuscitating and pronouncing young people (dead) is by far the worst part of my job, and the young man this weekend who died a violent death was one of the most difficult experiences I’ve ever had at work” Written by Dr. Clark Lewis, a VCH physician.