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Health Minister Adrian Dix announces the soon-to-open North Vancouver Urgent and Primary Care Centre alongside Dr. Kathleen Ross, president of Doctors of BC, and Dr. Penny Ballem, board chair of Vancouver Coastal Health, in Lower Lonsdale Thursday. (Photo Credit: Paul McGrath, North Shore News)
News Releases and Coverage

New urgent care centre to open in North Van (UPCC)

August 12, 2019
Port Moody's Graham Fenn is preparing to participate in the ride to conquer cancer as a way to give back. Photo courtesy of Mario Bartel / The Tri-City News.
Colorectal Cancer • GI Disorders • News Releases and Coverage

Port Moody man gets behind Ride to Conquer Cancer (SPH)

August 9, 2019
The Dr. Peter Centre opened in 1997. (Photo Credit: LAURA LEYSHON/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
News Releases and Coverage

For those aging with HIV, Dr. Peter Centre offers a safe place (BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS)

August 8, 2019
The province credits overdose-prevention sites, where people inject drugs under staff supervision, with reducing the number of overdoses in B.C. that turn fatal. (Photo Credit: TRAVIS LUPICK)
News Releases and Coverage

The next phase of B.C.’s crisis: fewer deaths but more overdoses than ever before (Crosstown Clinic)

August 8, 2019
Dr. Alastair Younger (left) and patient John Jefferson, who is walking again after a transplant using a #3D printed bone replacement. (Photo credit: ARLEN REDEKOP / PNG)
Ankle Pain • News Releases and Coverage

B.C. motorcyclist who collided with deer walks again thanks to 3D-printed bone replacement (Dr. Alastair Younger)

August 7, 2019
Dr. Aslam Anis is a lead CHÉOS scientist and is the senior author of the new study.
Arthritis • Immunology • News Releases and Coverage

Arthritis Tied to Heart Disease. Pain Relievers May Be to Blame (Dr. Aslam Anis)

August 7, 2019
A new research program is looking at innovative approaches to support people with mental health and addictions issues in finding and keeping suitable jobs (Photo Credit: vancouverisawesome.com)
News Releases and Coverage

This new research program will help people in Vancouver’s DTES get jobs (Dr. Skye Barbic)

August 7, 2019
talus bone motorcycle accident changes white rock man's life
Ankle Pain • News Releases and Coverage

St. Paul’s surgeons implant 3-D bone into B.C. man’s injured ankle—a first in Western Canada (Dr. Alastair Younger, SPH)

August 2, 2019
Vancouver’s chief medical health officer Dr. Patricia Daly laid out a number of recommendations Friday morning for the next phase in the fight against the opioid crisis. Photo courtesy of Dan Toulgoet.
News Releases and Coverage

Vancouver’s chief medical health officer makes recommendations for opioid crisis response (OERC, PHC)

August 2, 2019
Dr. Patricia Daly, BC chief medical health officer.
News Releases and Coverage

Regulate drugs to save lives as fentanyl detected in 87% of ODs (Crosstown Clinic)

August 2, 2019

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