About 120 Vancouver-area addicts will soon receive prescription heroin in a controversial approach to treating heroin addicts. With quotes from Dr. Scott MacDonald, a doctor at Providence Health Care.

In a North American first, heroin addicts in Vancouver will soon receive prescription heroin outside of a clinical trial. With quotes from David Byres, vice-president of acute clinical programs at Providence Health Care.

Doctors in Canada will become the first medics in North America to prescribe heroin to addicts next week. With quotes from David Byres, vice president of acute clinical programs at Providence Health Care.

A glitch in some last-minute testing of safety equipment has meant a three-week delay in getting patients and staff moved into VCH’s new HOpe Centre. With quotes from Anna Marie D’Angelo, a spokesperson for VCH.

A story about the availability of an expensive drug for Hepatitis C treatment. With quotes from Dr. Erik Yoshida, head of gastroenterology at VGH.

Vancouver drug users are being asked to be careful after potentially lethal drugs — including one responsible for a recent rash of overdoses — were stolen from an east side pharmacy.

VCH’s St. Mary’s Hospital is the former site of a residential school farm which inspired its renovations.

Strapping an oxygen mask to someone suffering a heart attack might make their heart attack worse, new research suggests. With quotes from Dr. Dion Stub, an interventional cardiologist at St. Paul’s Hospital.

Just a few weeks after getting full operational clearance, the health centre helipad was put through its paces on Nov. 11, as BC Air Ambulance arrived and whisked a sick child to care in Vancouver in the middle of the night. With quotes from Viola Kaminski, public affairs officer for VCH.

Promotion video for story in Saturday’s 16×9 broadcast. Kevin, a heroin addict in his 50s, hopes to be accepted into a supervised heroin maintenance program operated by Providence Health Care.