The House of Commons has passed a bill that critics say will impede the operations of supervised consumption sites such as (VCH’s) Insite and endanger severely addicted Canadians.

Health Canada has granted Vancouver’s Insite supervised drug injection site an exemption to operate for another year, Vancouver Coastal Health announced in a statement today. With quotes from Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for VCH.

Vancouver’s supervised drug injection site has received its annual exemption to operate, Vancouver Coastal Health said today. With quotes from Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for VCH.

Canada’s first supervised injection site has received a Health Canada exemption that allows it to continue to operate, days after passage of federal legislation that critics fear will make it harder to open new facilities. With quotes from Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for VCH.

Startling statistics on fentanyl-related overdoses and deaths have prompted police and health authorities to issue a public warning – particularly to recreational pot users. With quotes from Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, a medical health officer with VCH.

“It still does apparently but I’ll be darned if I can find any uptake statistics more recent than 2013, when Vancouver Coastal Health trumpeted the fact that there were 21,695 takers for free nicotine replacement therapy (patches or gum) in the VCH’s region in the first year of the program.”

“In B.C., a concerted effort to reach the especially high-risk and vulnerable population of injection drug users — coupled with harm reduction programs — led to the virtual elimination of the spread of HIV among this group.” Co-written by Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

A potentially historic clinical trial for a stroke drug will begin rolling in Ontario this week. The clinical trial will shortly begin at Vancouver General Hospital as well.

A routine inspection by Vancouver Coastal Health inspectors led to the closure of a Sea Island eatery on Friday due to a pest infestation.

Does more need to be done to keep crime out of a park and playground in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood? A man who lives nearby says yes, and he’s gone to the Park Board. With mention of the Park Board working with VCH.