VCH’s Dr Mark Lysyshyn says public outcry over a proposed addictions recovery home in North Vancouver is largely due to the public’s misunderstanding of what actually happens at these facilities.

A new policy paper is calling for change to the way people in the Downtown Eastside are receiving health care. With quotes from Dr. John Carsley, a medical health officer with VCH.

VGH neurosurgeon Dr. Brian Toyota is the first in Canada to use a new technology to fight brain tumours.

A VGH neurosurgeon is the first in Canada to perform a new robotic laser surgery to treat patients with brain tumours, a technique he says could save lives.

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.

Vancouver police and provincial health officials have launched a new campaign to raise awareness about fentanyl, an opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine that they say is responsible for an increasing number of deaths in British Columbia. With quotes from Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, a medical health officer with VCH.

Yukon residents would benefit from a system to determine how many people have diabetes, according to Dr. Adeera Levin, a nephrologist at St. Paul’s Hospital who treats patients with chronic kidney disease, one of the serious complications from diabetes.

“A mental health crisis in my family introduced us to the HOpe Centre. A loved one suffers from bipolar disorder and has been hospitalized in the past. When she arrived from Ontario we thought the illness so severe we went to Lion’s Gate, anticipating hospitalization.”

The jobs of some 240 care aides, nurses, cleaners and dietary workers at Laurel Place, a residential care facility in Surrey, and 935 cleaners in Vancouver Coastal Health hospitals were lost to “contract flipping,” according to Mike Old, a spokesman for the Hospital Employees’ Union.

The union representing health-care workers in British Columbia says hundreds of its members in the Vancouver area will be getting pink slips in the coming months.