The Medical Services Commission has been publishing the booklet containing payments made to doctors, hospitals and others who bill the government for decades; it has been publicly available for about 25 years.

VGH neurosurgeon Dr. Brian Toyota will be the first in Canada to use new robotic laser heat technology to destroy brain tumours or other abnormal growths inside the skull.

British Columbia has become a global success story in combatting HIV/AIDS thanks to Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

A new UBC study of Metro Vancouver residents has provided more evidence that pedestrian-friendly communities are much healthier than car-dependent ones. With quotes from Dr. John Carsley, medical health officer for VCH.

Politicians, funders and mental health advocates from the North Shore gathered Monday inside the newly completed $62-million HOpe Centre to celebrate the milestone the new facility represents. With quotes from Dr. Allan Burgman, head of Lion’s Gate Hospital’s in-patient psychiatry program.

“The sparkling new facility for treatment of mental illness at Lions Gate Hospital is aptly named.”

Vancouver doctor and world-renowned AIDS researcher Dr. Julio Montaner (director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS) sat in United Nations general assembly in New York on Thursday as the UN endorsed an ambitious new plan to fight the AIDS epidemic globally, and end the epidemic by 2030.

Based on current trends, it’s projected there will be a 36 per cent increase this year in the number of transit police files having a Mental Health Act component.

“About 16 per cent of all transit police files so far this year have a Mental Health Act component, but the projection is that 2014 will see a 30 per cent increase over last year.”

“A delegation from the Vancouver Police Department met with the Vancouver Sun editorial board some years ago to discuss the challenges confronting its officers.” With mention of a mental illness task force being supported by VCH, the city, the Vancouver Foundation and Pacific Blue Cross.