The Mobile Medical Unit—a legacy from the Vancouver 2010 Olympics—helped save the lives of four people this past weekend in Bella Bella. With quotes from Dr. Ross Brown, co-senior medical director at VCH.

The City of Vancouver is distancing itself from the industry funding behind its 100 downtown cigarette bins, as VCH warns the much-touted project was funded by Canada’s largest tobacco company. With quotes from Anna Marie D’Angelo, a spokesperson for VCH.

“Yet, Vancouver Coastal Health still holds the perspective that if an ashtray is present that somehow it encourages people to smoke.”

VCH has ruled out Metro Vancouver’s Lions Gate primary-treatment sewage plant as the source of high E. coli levels on West Vancouver beaches. With quotes from Dr. John Carsley, a medical health officer with VCH.

A VGH robot has helped remove a tumor from the tonsils of a VCH employee.

The 52-year-old Dragan was shot on a sidewalk in front of the Starbucks on Davie Street and Marinaside Crescent on June 10. References to VGH and Dr. Morad Hameed, VGH trauma surgeon as the life saver of the patient.

Early HIV infection is difficult for doctors to diagnose using clinical exam skills alone, according to a new B.C. study by the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Lead author Dr. Evan Wood, Canada Research Chair in Inner City Medicine at UBC.

The B.C. Schizophrenia Society says that public education and awareness has taken a hit since VCH reduced its funding to the organization last year.

A list of the top five cleanest and dirtiest beaches in Vancouver, based on VCH coliform level data.

Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington is calling for South Delta, Tsawwassen and Ladner, to be considered to move from Fraser Health to Vancouver Coastal Health jurisdiction, just as Burnaby is being considered.