Passengers on another flight from China to Vancouver are being warned that they may have contracted measles and should get vaccinated if their immunizations are not up to date.

Passengers on a second flight from Beijing to Vancouver may be at risk of contracting measles, according to Vancouver Coastal Health. With quotes from Dr. Reka Gustafson, a medical health officer with VCH.

Health care employees rallied against federal cuts to the health care system outside VCH’s Lions Gate Hospital Wednesday, one year to the day funding cutbacks were implemented.

Hundreds of invited guests, community members and government leaders crowded into the Sechelt First Nation Longhouse last Saturday for a sacred ceremony to honour the renaming of VCH’s St. Mary’s Hospital to Sechelt (shíshálh) Hospital.

B.C. dentists are collaborating with certain pharmacies to offer free, oral cancer screening clinics starting next week. With quotes from Dr. Eitan Prisman, a surgeon at VGH.

Data from four of B.C.’s busiest emergency rooms show that a quarter of all drivers injured in collisions tested positive for at least one sedating medication, prescribed or bought over the counter, but the lead researcher says much more work needs to be done to determine the extent such prescription drugs impair those behind the wheel. With quotes from Jeff Brubacher, an ER doctor at VGH.

Vancouver Coastal Health is optimistic it will expand its supervised injection services, despite federal legislation that critics fear will make it harder to open new facilities.

Downtown Vancouver will soon be losing its only emergency room if recent rumors are to be believed.

Vancouver-West End NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert expects a big public campaign to save St. Paul’s Hospital if the province decides to relocate downtown’s only emergency room to pave way for condos.

According to the B.C. NDP MLA who represents Vancouver-West End, where the acute care, teaching, and research hospital is located, it’s looking like St. Paul’s will be torn down and moved to False Creek, with condos to be built at its prime downtown location.