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Vancouver legend Rick Hansen (second from left) joined Jim Pattison (centre) when the billionaire businessman was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame. Photo courtesy of the Georgia Straight.
News Releases and Coverage

Vancouver legends were once trailblazers (New SPH)

May 23, 2019
Photos via Flickr user Mike Mozart/Steve Buissinne from Pixabay.
News Releases and Coverage • Opioids • Substance Use

How to Legalize Every Drug (BCCSU)

May 23, 2019
An urgent care centre in downtown Vancouver, near Providence Health Care. (Photo courtesy of News1130)
News Releases and Coverage

CCPA worries partnership between VCH, for-profit provider will impact treatment at urgent care centres (PHC)

May 23, 2019
City Centre Urgent Primary Care Centre at 1290 Hornby Street. near Providence Health Care. Photo Courtesy of the Vancouver Sun.
News Releases and Coverage

‘Corporate medicine’ model is wrong approach for urgent care centres (PHC)

May 23, 2019
A patient at the Crosstown Clinic in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside prepares one of his three daily doses of prescribed hydromorphone in January, 2017. (Rafferty Baker/CBC)
News Releases and Coverage

Health Canada approves injectable hydromorphone to treat opioid addiction (Dr. Scott MacDonald, Crosstown)

May 22, 2019
One popular theory is that the RBC Royal Bank building at the corner of Granville and West Broadway will one day become a rapid-transit station. (Photo courtesy of the Georgia Straight.)
News Releases and Coverage

For second time in six years, KPMG produces study touting economic importance of Broadway corridor (New SPH)

May 22, 2019
Rebekah Eatmon is a graduate of UBC’s medical undergraduate program and a post-graduate resident specializing in family medicine.
News Releases and Coverage

UBC program graduates Indigenous MDs to bridge health gap (SPH)

May 22, 2019
St. Paul's Hospital has received a $1-million gift to buy special equipment that saved the life of a clinically dead man in February. From left to right: Dr. Jamil Bashir, patient Chris Dawkins, paramedics Thomas Watson and Benjamin Johnson, dispatcher Anne-Marie Forrest are pictured at St. Paul's Hospital.
News Releases and Coverage

St. Paul’s Hospital receives $1-million gift to buy life-saving equipment (Dick Vollet, St. Paul’s Foundation)

May 16, 2019
Dr. Evan Wood, Director, BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU).
News Releases and Coverage

Overdoses down in B.C., but toxic, powerful drug is more common (Dr. Evan Wood, BCCSU)

May 16, 2019
St. Paul’s Foundation announces Scotiabank has donated $2 million to their youth transition program on May 14.
News Releases and Coverage

$2-million donation to support youth transition care at St. Paul’s Hospital (PACH, SPH)

May 15, 2019

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