St. Mary’s Hospital Auxiliary has changed its name to the Sunshine Coast Health Care Auxiliary. The name change follows St. Mary’s Hospital being renamed to Sechelt Hospital last month.

For about one in six women, sexual activity is unbearably painful every time, and the pain does not seem to go away. By Dr. Lori Brotto of VCH’s Multidisciplinary Vulvodynia Program.

VCH’s Program Medical Director of Addiction Services Dr. Evan Wood speaks about the John Volken Academy, which is Canada’s largest long-term residential addictions treatment centre for young adults.

A team of UBC researchers have made a discovery around the cause of brain swelling after head trauma. Their research paves the way for a preventative drug treatment for severe brain damage following stroke, infection, head injury or cardiac arrest.

Researchers at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health have found that blocking the action of chloride in the brain’s neurons halts brain swelling. With quotes from Brian MacVicar, co-director of the centre and scientist at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.

Lui Passaglia is speaking publicly about his battle with colon cancer in hopes to raise awareness about this preventable disease. With quotes from Dr. Robert Enns, VCH gastroenterologist.

A Sexual Health of Youth in BC study, carried out by the Vancouver-based McCreary Institute, surveyed almost 30,000 students across the province from Grade 7 to 12 in 2013. They found that fewer youth in Richmond are having sex before age 15, compared to the last study in 2008. With quotes from Chris Salgado, manager of community and family health at VCH.

Is there such a thing as too much exercise? It’s a question a University of BC grad student is exploring with the assistance of renowned sports doctors Jack Taunton and VGH cardiologist Saul Isserow.

An international group of health care systems has begun a year-long project to gather and share data on how to design systems to improve patient safety. With quotes from Patrick O’Connor, vice president of medicine, quality and safety at VCH.

Dr. Julio Montaner is among the latest inductees into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. The director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS is being recognized for his many contributions to the field of HIV/AIDS research—notably his ground-breaking treatment-as-prevention strategy, which uses anti-retroviral drugs to reduce patients’ HIV viral count and, consequently, reduce their risk of transmission.