Calls to regulate the sale and use of electronic cigarettes could soon be answered in the City of Vancouver. With quotes from Dr. Meena Dawar, a medical health officer at VCH.

Climate change affects both social and environmental determinants of health: clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter. Written by Dr. Paul Martiquet, a medical health officer at VCH.

Vancouver police answered 729 calls to the Marguerite Ford Apartments from the month it opened in May 2013 to August of this year. With mention of tenants accessing primary care through VCH.

“Mental illness, addiction and homelessness-related problems are reaching crisis proportions in communities big and small, say B.C.’s mayors, who want the province to provide long-term-care beds for the severely mentally ill.

As B.C.’s mayors called on the province to reopen long-term residential beds for the most severely addicted and mentally ill, those behind an innovative policing and health care model in Victoria and Vancouver say their approach could be copied by other communities. With comments from Anna Marie D’Angelo, a spokesperson for VCH.

A new study will examine whether changing the release date of welfare cheques could reduce the increase in drug use and overdoses seen on the last Wednesday of the month…

Injection drug users are much more likely to overdose around the day government assistance cheques are issued in British Columbia, according to new research published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. With quotes from Thomas Kerr, senior author of the study and director of the Urban Health Research Initiative at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

A new pilot project set to launch on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside will try distributing welfare and other social assistance cheques in smaller instalments to see if it will help the recipients better manage their money, stay healthier — and even stay alive..

The Lions Gate Hospital Foundation’s art program has been bringing artwork into the halls of the hospital, Evergreen House and North Shore Hospice for almost two years, and will soon be adorning the walls of the new HOpe Centre this fall. With quotes from Joanne McLellan, director of planned giving at Lions Gate Hospital Foundation.

Campaigns based on abstinence and posters urging resistance to drugs in high schools, have little impact or worse on those who are most at risk of falling victim to addiction. With mention of VCH’s School Age Children and Youth (SACY) Substance Use Prevention Initiative.