Category - News Releases and Coverage

Nick Kanaan gets new lease on life thanks to game-changing medical technology (Photo credit: CTV News)

Cystic Fibrosis • Lung • News Releases and Coverage

Surrey man gets new lease on life thanks to ‘game-changing’ medical technology (SPH)

November 29, 2019

Sarah Blyth, founding member of High Hopes Cannabis Collective, which helps people get access to medical cannabis as a replacement for opioids, outside the facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, on Nov. 28, 2019. (Photo credit: The Globe and Mail)

Cannabis • Digestive Health • GI Disorders • News Releases and Coverage • Opioids • Substance Use

New research suggests daily cannabis use could be effective alternative to opioids for chronic pain (BCCSU)

November 29, 2019

Urgent, primary care centre planned for Victoria (Photo credit: Island Health News)

News Releases and Coverage

Urgent, primary care centre planned for Victoria (UPCC)

November 29, 2019

Artistic rendering of the new St. Paul's Hospital and health campus at the False Creek Flats. (IBI Group Architects / Providence Healthcare)

News Releases and Coverage

Big win for Prior Street residents as Vancouver council backs calming plan (New SPH)

November 29, 2019

Mr. M-J Milloy, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). (Photo credit: BCCSU)

Cannabis • News Releases and Coverage • Substance Use

BC Centre on Substance Use hosts inaugural Cannabis Science Symposium

November 29, 2019

Mr. M-J Milloy, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). (Photo credit: BCCSU)

Cannabis • News Releases and Coverage • Opioids • Substance Use

Daily Cannabis Can Cut Illicit Opioid Use For Those With Chronic Pain (Dr. M-J Milloy, BCCSU)

November 29, 2019

Jennifer Wright, a former ballet dancer with cystic fibrosis, was in hospital for a medical procedure when a someone entered the CF ward at St. Paul’s Hospital and stole her bag with her wallet. The woman later allegedly used her card in the hospital gift shop. (Photo credit: Vancouver Sun)

News Releases and Coverage

Thief stole from patients in cystic fibrosis ward at St. Paul’s Hospital

November 25, 2019

Artistic rendering of the new St. Paul's Hospital and health campus at the False Creek Flats. (IBI Group Architects / Providence Healthcare)

News Releases and Coverage

Opinion: New St. Paul’s Hospital campus will revitalize Vancouver’s Chinatown (New SPH)

November 21, 2019

St. Paul's Hospital (Photo credit: Big News Network)

Heart • News Releases and Coverage • Valve Disorders

Neovasc Tiara(TM) Progress Highlighted at PCR London Valves 2019 (SPH)

November 21, 2019

James Teit with three Interior chiefs in Ottawa, 1916. Left to right: Chief John Tetlenitsa (Nlaka’pamux), James Teit, Chief Paul David (Ktunaxa) and Chief Thomas Adolph (St’at’imc). Photograph by Frederick Lyonde. Copy courtesy of Sigurd Teit. (Photo credit: Vancouver Sun)

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Wendy Wickwire: B.C.’s missing anthropologist could finally get the recognition he’s due (SPH)

November 21, 2019