Errors made by nurses while dispensing pills dropped 60 per cent when hospitals in Montreal instituted a new rule that other staff had to leave nurses alone while they were doing such tasks.

A well-intentioned Stanford University Hospital nurse turned off the constantly beeping alarms on the monitoring equipment attached to Gabriel’s body so that his mom sitting beside him could get some uninterrupted sleep. The problem was, when his heart stopped in the middle of the night, no one knew it.

B.C. will need to spend $1.6 billion more than it has budgeted on education and $1.8 billion more on health care to maintain a constant level of spending over the next three years, according to a newly released Conference Board of Canada report.

Dr. Pat Camp, Sandra Squire, Dr. Shannon Jackson, and Kam McIntosh received the 2014 Best Patient Safety and Quality award for their work which has given adult hemophiliacs new life

VCH board member Dr. Margaret MacDiarmid will be awarded the Canadian Medical Association’s (CMA) 2014 Sir Charles Tupper Award for Political Action in recognition of her effective political advocacy for physicians and citizens alike.

For someone who was “clinically dead” less than two months ago, Paul Dragan looks very much like a man with a lot of living to do. The 52-year-old Reckless Bikes owner had high praise for the care he received at Vancouver General Hospital.

A national clinical trial testing the effectiveness of a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis is halfway to meeting its recruitment goal, and Manitobans are playing a prominent role.

The British Columbia government is boosting funding for addictions research and treatment in the province, with money going towards testing of a drug that can block the effects of heroin and alcohol. Mentions Dr. Evan Wood with BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

For someone who was “clinically dead” less than two months ago, Paul Dragan looks very much like a man with a lot of living to do. The affable 52-year-old Reckless Bikes owner was back at his busy Yaletown shop Friday, greeting customers and passersby who were delighted to see him in such good condition.

A national clinical trial testing the effectiveness of a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis is halfway to meeting its recruitment goal, and Manitobans are playing a prominent role.