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Calgary woman's mystery illness was rare cannabinoid syndrome: What is it? (Dr. Joseph Finkler, SPH)
A Calgary woman received a surprising diagnosis when she wound up in the ER after vomiting 30 times in a single day.
Bookmark/Search this post withStudy Supports One-Hour Observation Rule For Naloxone Recipients (SPH)
Naloxone, a medication that can quickly reverse opioid overdose, has saved tens of thousands of lives in the past two decades. But how soon after treatment should a patient be released?
Bookmark/Search this post withB.C. nurses opposed to tentative contract want more staff, not necessarily more money (SPH)
A vocal group of frustrated nurses is threatening to reject a three-year tentative contract with the provincial government because it doesn’t come with written guarantees that more nurses will be hired for short-staffed hospital units.
Bookmark/Search this post withThe Kindness of Strangers -- Early Edition with Stephen Quinn (Annemarie Kaan)
Foundry Kelowna looking to go mobile (Foundry)
Foundry Kelowna wants to initiate a mobile health care service by the fall of 2019.
Bookmark/Search this post withProvince improving residential care in Delta, Langley and Surrey (UPCC)
Seniors in Delta, Langley and Surrey are benefiting from more than $12.8 million in 2018-19 funding to increase staffing levels and ensure that seniors get the care they need in residential care homes, the Province announced on Tuesday.
Bookmark/Search this post withArt exhibit and SFU colloquium on HIV/AIDS to explore Vancouver's historical role in innovation and activism (BC-CfE)
SFU President Andrew Petter launched the President's Dream Colloquium in 2011 to create an annual forum for interdisciplinary exchange among students and faculty and to bring leading thinkers to SFU.
Bookmark/Search this post withSenior Scene: Stay active this winter (Dr. Scott Lear)
The first eight days of 2019 have come and gone and I am hopeful that some of you have made some health-oriented resolutions and are sticking to them. A new year should motivate us to improve our health, feel good about ourselves and have more energy.
Bookmark/Search this post withData on brain damage due to opioid use lacking (Dr. Adam Peets, SPH)
Canada is currently facing a serious opioid crisis, with over 9,000 opioid-related deaths having occurred between January 2016 and June 2018. However, no comprehensive statistics exist regarding individuals who have survived brain-damaging effects of opioids.
Bookmark/Search this post withOntario regions hit hardest by the opioid crisis may not get supervised drug-use sites (BCCSU)
The Ontario government is promising to approve 21 supervised drug-use sites in places hard hit by the opioid crisis, but some of the communities with the province’s highest rates of opioid-related deaths and hospital admissions won’t be on the list.
Bookmark/Search this post withThe common pill that's killing in the shadow of the opioid crisis (Dr. Keith Ahamad, BCCSU)
To this day, Wendy Golden has no idea why her son Kody Cook chose to swallow what he did on June 24, 2014. Sure, he smoked weed and liked his Budweiser, but the medical examiner's report would later classify him as a “naive” user. In other words, he was hardly an addict.
Bookmark/Search this post withHow Vancouver is saving addicts' lives (Dr. Scott MacDonald, Crosstown)
In the past two years, more than 8,000 people in Canada have lost their lives due to opioid overdoses.
Bookmark/Search this post withMountain Views Trump the Needs of Health Care – St. Paul’s Hospital to Become Vancouver’s Newest Table Top (New SPH)
As Darren was born in the Lower Mainland, he is used to some of Vancouver’s more quirky planning policies, which continue to fascinate me. Some feel designed for a city very different from the one we live in today.
Bookmark/Search this post withJC Medical Announces First U.S. Treatment With J-Valve TAVR Device (Dr. John Webb)
JC Medical announced the successful treatment of the first U.S. patient with the company’s transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device, the J-Valve TF System. The patient was treated at The Christ Hospital – Cincinnati, Ohio by Dean Kereiakes, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, medical co-director of the Lindner Research Center, working with Joseph Choo, M.D., and Geoffrey Answini, M.D.
Bookmark/Search this post withHistory of HIV told by Vancouver artists in new gallery show (Dr. Montaner, BC-CfE)
Since 1987, Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr has taken thousands of pills to keep HIV/AIDS at bay.
Bookmark/Search this post withThe Great Fentanyl Myth, and How We’re Killing Drug Users (BC-CfE)
Yes, the collapse of a second major B.C. drug-related case within weeks raises big questions about the competence of the RCMP and federal prosecutors.
Bookmark/Search this post withRead Woman’s Heartfelt Open Letter to Flight Attendant Who Extended Simple Offer of Kindness 17 Years Ago (Annemarie Kaan, SPH)
17 years ago, Annemarie Kaan was on a plane flying from Australia to Canada, preparing to start her new life in a totally different country.
Bookmark/Search this post with'Safe supply' program will distribute free opioids to entrenched users (Crosstown)
Carissa Sutherland's history with drugs is a lot like many others in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Bookmark/Search this post withTop SFU News stories of 2018 (Robert Hogg, BC-CfE)
Being named Canada’s top comprehensive university for the 10th time in 11 years capped an electrifying 2018 at SFU.
Bookmark/Search this post withFormer city manager Penny Ballem appointed to chair Vancouver Coastal Health (PHC)
A familiar face to Vancouver city-hall watchers will play a significant role in health care in the region.
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