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News Releases and Coverage

Budget 2021: Here’s how B.C. plans to invest in health care in its latest fiscal plan

April 21, 2021
Inside the testing trailer located at the YVR domestic terminal. (Photo credit: Medicinematters.ca)
News Releases and Coverage

600 RAPID COVID-19 TESTS DONE ON WESTJET PASSENGERS AT VANCOUVER AIRPORT. NOT ONE YIELDED A POSITIVE RESULT: UBC STUDY

April 20, 2021
Four-year-old Ferris Backmeyer has Mainzer-Saldino syndrome — a rare disorder involving kidney failure, vision loss and misshapen bones, which she was diagnosed with just days following her birth. (Photo credit: Kamloops This Week)
Kidney & Renal • Kidney Failure • News Releases and Coverage

Fundraiser for Ferris

April 20, 2021
Nikki Skillen is a 24-year veteran ICU nurse in the GTA. She said hospitals are now bringing nurses in from other departments to keep up with demand created by critically ill COVID patients. (Photo credit: CBC News)
News Releases and Coverage

‘The stress, the anxiety, the nightmares’: What it’s like to work in the country’s strained ICUs

April 20, 2021
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News Releases and Coverage

AR mural in Vancouver looks to spark dialogue on mental health

April 20, 2021
Atish Ram with an oxygen machine inside his Surrey home. (Photo credit: Vancouver Sun)
News Releases and Coverage

COVID-19 symptoms life-changing for long-haulers: ‘I don’t know if I’m ever gonna be back to normal’

April 19, 2021
FILE - Dr. Joss Reimer, medical lead, Manitoba Vaccine Implementation Task Force draws a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Winnipeg, Friday, March 19, 2021. (Photo credit: News 1130)
Blood Clots • News Releases and Coverage

Why are most people who develop blood clots after J&J or AstraZeneca vaccines women?

April 16, 2021
Sumeet Sharma (far right) at Vancouver's Gladstone Secondary School. (Photo credit: Voiceonline.com)
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National champion powerlifter Sumeet Sharma keeps reaching out to frontline workers

April 15, 2021
A naloxone anti-overdose kit is shown in Vancouver, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. (Photo credit: News 1130)
News Releases and Coverage

Wednesday marks five years since B.C. declared overdose crisis a public health emergency

April 15, 2021
Doctors are worried about people putting off treatment, now that a new study suggests British Columbians are avoiding calling 9-1-1 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo credit: Global News)
News Releases and Coverage

Study raises concerns sick British Columbians aren’t calling 911 out of COVID-19 fears

April 12, 2021

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