“I found everyone (at Lions Gate Hospital) from the reception nurse, admitting nurse, the technicians who performed various tests, to the medical student trainee and the consulting doctor to be unfailingly gracious, helpful and polite.”

The first human clinical trial for a groundbreaking new drug that has the potential to turn off the gene that causes Huntington’s disease will get underway in Vancouver this year, says VCHRI/UBC researcher Dr. Blair Leavitt.

Family members of loved ones residing at a Burnaby care home were shocked when they were told two senior managers were fired last week for allegedly running a pyramid scheme that promised employees an 800 per cent return on their investment. With quotes from Dave Lefebvre of Providence Health Care which runs the care home.

More than a third of B.C. care home residents were prescribed antipsychotic medications in 2012-13, although only four per cent had been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder. With quotes from Dr. Maria Chung, a VGH doctor.

Last week, Vancouver-West End NDP MLA Spencer Chandra-Herbert raised fears that the provincial government could be abandoning its plans to revitalize St. Paul’s Hospital in favour of building a new hospital campus at the False Creek Flats.

Are the rumours true: will St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver wind up in a different location?

Passengers arriving into YVR on a flight from Beijing this weekend may have been exposed to measles, after one patient tested positive. With quotes from Tiffany Akins, a spokesperson for VCH.

Vancouver Coastal Health says passengers on another flight from China to YVR could be at risk of contracting the measles. With quotes from Tiffany Akins, a spokesperson for VCH.

Vancouver Coastal Health says a person diagnosed with measles over the weekend exposed people on Air China/Air Canada Flight #CA 991/AC 6601 arriving at Vancouver International Airport at 12:15 p.m. on Saturday, April 4.

One person aboard Air China Flight 991was subsequently diagnosed with measles, said a spokesperson for VCH. The flight landed in Vancouver on Saturday just after noon.