The B.C. Supreme Court has granted an injunction that lets doctors give prescription heroin to select patients in Vancouver.

Addicts who were using prescription heroin as part of the Salome clinical trial in Vancouver have won a temporary injunction to continue getting the drug.

A VGH employee is making sure reusable medical equipment is going to needy people in war-torn countries.

A Port Coquitlam woman in severe pain says she wishes she would die, after waiting months to be treated for complications arising from bladder surgery. With quotes from Dr. Stephen Wiseman and Dr. Brenda Lau from St. Paul’s Hospital.

There are a range of specific programs being offered in communities to support mothers and parents. Written by Dr. Paul Martiquet, medical health officer at VCH.

Cross-border shopping and young people preferring to eat cheese and yogurt are being blamed by the industry for the decline of all categories of milk sales in B.C. With quotes from Meena Karsanji, a clinical dietician at VCH.

Interim Board Chair Faye Wightman says a new executive director will be named later this week to replace Mark Townsend at the Portland Hotel Society (PHS). With mention of most of PHS’s funding coming from VCH and BC Housing.

VCH has safeguards in place to prevent babies from being stolen in its hospitals.

The Vancouver school board is proposing to update its 2004 sexual orientation and gender identities policy. With quotes from Gayle Roberts, an author and form chair of VCH’s advisory group to the Trans Health Program.

The Coal Alliance is combating growing public opposition to expanded coal shipments through the Lower Mainland with claims its area terminals directly pump tens of millions of dollars into cities throughout B.C. annually. With mention of VCH and Fraser Health calling for a comprehensive health impact assessment.