A Lower Lonsdale business owner is taking the City of North Vancouver to task for an apparent lack of interest or ability to enforce its anti-smoking bylaw. With comments from Lindsay MacDonald, a regional tobacco reduction coordinator for VCH.

Interested in sparing other families from a similar ordeal, Per Brunes launched the Paul Brunes Foundation and partnered with the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation to establish the Paul Brunes UBC Professor in Heart Rhythm Disorders. Since 2012, that role has been held by Dr. Andrew Krahn.

West Vancouver parents score the second lowest in the Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) region when it comes to keeping up to date with vaccinations for their youngest school-age children. With quotes from Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, a medical health officer with VCH.

A Squamish councillor says women who have been sexually assaulted in the District have to go all the way to Vancouver to have a rape kit administered. With comments from VCH.

Andrew MacFarlane with Vancouver Coastal Health explains they work with several local agencies and adds those interactions with police are not necessarily a bad thing.

“Frontline health care workers in the province who work with refugees have been vocal and unanimous on the need for change, holding a Day of Action demonstration in downtown Vancouver for three years running.” Written by Dr. Martina Scholtens, a VCH physician.

VCH medical health officer Dr. Meena Dawar says while many parents are getting their kids vaccinated, they’re also seeing a frustrating trend of cherry picking – giving them some shots and not others.

Fraser Health is unable to provide immunization data on school-age children because the health authority has limited resources and is focused on improving vaccination rates for children younger than two years old, the region’s chief medical health officer said Thursday. With mention of VCH’s school vaccination rates.

Although the Quebec government has given the green light to a project introducing facilities in the Montreal area where drug users can legally and safely inject themselves, it’s still far from becoming a reality. With mention of VCH’s Insite facility.

A Downtown Eastside women’s advocacy group is demanding a meeting with Health Minister Terry Lake, after what they call the inadequate treatment of a woman who was viciously attacked in a random stabbing spree earlier this month. With quotes from Anna Marie D’Angelo, a spokesperson for VCH.