Teresa Zurberg’s job is working with dogs searching for bombs and narcotics, but it was a near-fatal experience with a hospital superbug that had her wondering whether her dogs could be trained to seek out a different kind of fatal scourge. With quotes from Drs. Elizabeth Bryce and Diane Roscoe, researchers at VGH.
Read MoreFebruary 25, 2015
Vancouver Coastal Health lays out “second generation” care for the Downtown Eastside
An expansion of supervised-injection services and safe rooms for crack users are two ideas Vancouver VCH says it is exploring in a policy paper released on February 24.
Read MoreFebruary 25, 2015
Health researchers question VPD’s claim Vancouver is experiencing a mental-health “crisis”
Two prominent health researchers have published a report that concludes the Vancouver Police Department is unfairly linking mental illness to violent crime, thus exaggerating the need for “greater police control over those with mental health challenges”. With quotes from Dr. Thomas Kerr and Jade Boyd, researchers at St. Paul’s Hospital and UBC.
Read MoreFebruary 26, 2015
In Vancouver, working so mentally ill get care instead of a cop
The night before Jim Chu’s first day as Vancouver police chief, a constable on the force shot and killed a 39-year-old bipolar man at a busy intersection on the edge of the city’s downtown. With quotes from Dr. Bill MacEwan, head of psychiatry at St. Paul’s Hospital.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2015
Artificial turf raises cancer concerns in young athletes
Seattle soccer coach Amy Griffin appeared on NBC news last fall for voicing her concerns about artificial-turf fields. With a quote from Randall Ash, manager of environmental health at VCH.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2015
B.C. doctors warn of increased road trauma since introduction of higher speed limits
B.C. doctors are warning that more people have been injured on the province’s highways since speed limits were raised last year. With quotes from Dr. John Carsley, a medical health officer with VCH.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2015
VGH doctor first in Canada to use robotic laser to target brain tumours
A neurosurgeon at Vancouver General Hospital has become the first surgeon in Canada to use new robotic laser heat technology to destroy brain tumours and other abnormal growths inside the skull.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2015
Bullying in the workplace
VCH received more than 500 calls on its No Bullying Line last year. With quotes from Anne Harvey, vice president of Employee Engagement at VCH.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2015
‘We’re cracking down. Nurses cannot continue to be assaulted,’ union vows
VGH nurse Rhonda Bennett was punched in the jaw in November and is still off work, one of hundreds of nurses who are physically assaulted every year.
Read MoreFebruary 25, 2015
B.C. nurses are fed up with abuse — ‘we have broken jaws to prove it’ — and will push to charge patients
B.C. nurses will begin pressing for charges against patients who hurt or abuse them, the president of the B.C. Nurses’ Union announced Tuesday. With mention of VGH nurse Rhonda Bennett who was assaulted in November.
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