July 26, 2013

How do you fit a new school in downtown Vancouver?

Quotes from Jennifer Ball, a pre-op assistant at VGH, who chooses to live downtown to raise a family with her husband, who is also a VGH staff member.

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July 26, 2013

Kidney dialysis treatment

A study based at St. Paul’s Hospital shows the more patients are involved in their kidney dialysis treatment, the better the outcome. Quotes from Michele Trask, St. Paul’s Hospital Dialysis Unit – operations leader.

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July 27, 2013

Sewing a smile onto the face of despair

A Langara journalism professor and former Vancouver Sun writer opens up about his struggle with depression and month-long stay in UBC Hospital.

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July 26, 2013

Oppenheimer Park Twins’ Lives Saved, Now In Ministry Care

The birth of twins in a park where Vancouver police officers helped an apparently surprised mother wasn’t such a happy experience after all.

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July 26, 2013

Cops seize twins from mentally ill mom after she squeezed a baby by the neck as she birthed the other

Vancouver police officers used physical force to stop a mother from smothering her newborn twins after she gave birth to the babies in a Vancouver park.

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July 26, 2013

Woman who gave birth to twins in park had mental health issues, police say

A woman who gave birth to twins in East Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park had mental health issues and police had to use force to remove the babies from her grip.

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July 26, 2013

Babies born in Vancouver park taken into care, police say

Twin babies born in a park in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have been taken into the care of B.C.’s children’s ministry.

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July 27, 2013

Police seize babies born in downtown eastside Vancouver park to mentally ill mother

Vancouver police officers used physical force to stop a mother from smothering her newborn twins after giving birth to the babies in a Vancouver park.

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July 25, 2013

Calgary’s problem, too

“Licia Corbella’s column on (VCH’s) Insite program in Vancouver has left serious erroneous impressions about drug addiction issues here in Calgary.”

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July 25, 2013

Our Irrational Fear of Heroin

Legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco are doing far more damage to British Columbia than illegal ones like heroin. With quotes from Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer at VCH.

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