An obese woman has filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, claiming two doctors denied her health care because of her weight. With mention of the woman being discharged from VGH after hip surgery.

Prostate Cancer Canada’s Do it for Dads Step Up Challenge: On Sunday, Feb. 22, corporate teams of five are encouraged to climb the stairs of five Vancouver office buildings, (totalling 5,000 feet), and raise a minimum of $5,000 in support of VCH’s Vancouver Prostate Centre.

“Fifty years ago today, Richmond Hospital, a single tower then, was still under construction. Then as now, community support was at the heart of Richmond Hospital.” Written by Natalie D Meixner, president and CEO of Richmond Hospital Foundation.

Richmond Hospital Foundation has announced its 2015 board of directors with three new board members and a new board executive.

There have been rodent sightings reported by public health inspectors, nurses and staff members at B.C. Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. With quotes from Richard Taki, regional director of health protection at VCH.

A decade after she left the grip of anorexia nervosa behind, Vancouver criminal defence lawyer Angela Rinaldis has created a charitable organization to help others get the information and therapy they need to control eating disorders. Rinaldis credits St. Paul’s Hospital with saving her life.

It may have been originally designed for military applications, but today an exoskeleton is helping people in B.C. recover from injuries that would have been crippling a generation ago. With quotes from Bob Thomas, a patient at VCH’s G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre.

VCH officials are asking the public to refrain from visiting Totem Lodge in Sechelt for the duration of a flu outbreak at the residential care facility. With quotes from Anna Marie D’Angelo, senior media relations officer for VCH.

Dr. Richard Mathias, professor emeritus from UBC, is espousing a return of saturated fats to meals, while at the same time reducing carbohydrates in a war against obesity and its related illness such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. With quotes from Dr. James Lu, a medical health officer at VCH.

Ekso arrived in Vancouver midway through last year and has since been deployed at VCH’s GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre. With quotes from Dr. Andrea Townson, a researcher at the VCH Blusson Spinal Cord Centre.