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Hospices and religious-based facilities are forcing dying patients to travel by van to another facility, then transfer to another bed, to fulfil their wishes for medical assistance in dying.

Tsawwassen teen ballplayer Kyle Losse died of a massive stroke caused by abnormal blood flow in his brain, a B.C. coroner’s report states.

A popular Vancouver-based company with more than 70 stores across North America has recalled a baby wash product bottled at a contracted “natural health” products facility in Kelowna.Th…

Answer: Both of the billionaires have given $75 million to hospitals, Zuckerberg to San Francisco General and Pattison to a new St. Paul’s Hospital here in Vancouver.And just like the hospital in S…

B.C. Transplant says it is considering the previously unthinkable: allowing the transplantation of organs infected with hepatitis C into those who could die while waiting for kidneys, lungs or othe…

Record numbers of “birth tourists”, mostly from China, are expected at Richmond Hospital this year, but there are no plans to deter women from having their babies at the hospital i…

Colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths, has already spread in half of all cases by the time it is diagnosed, a national report released on Wednesday shows.That’s despite…

My story about the scandalous, disreputable, Dr. Patrick Nesbitt, who was suspended for the sixth time earlier this year, is the most popular article I’ve written in the first half of the year.It&r…

Vancouver urologists are shining new light — literally — on cancerous bladder lesions, with a new tool that makes malignant cells appear pink when fluorescent blue light is shone on the…

In a precedent-setting move, the B.C. Nurses’ Union has ousted its beleaguered president, Gayle Duteil, after receiving a confidential report by arbitrators Vince Ready and Judy Korbin. Christine S…

Confirmed and reported cases of Lyme disease in B.C. have at least doubled in just a few years, largely because of more sensitive diagnostic testing being used as well as greater awareness on the p…

Health Minister Adrian Dix says investigations of a naturopath who gave a misbehaving child a remedy with saliva of a rabid dog should help determine whether self-regulation of health providers is …

Online dating, casual hookups and a decline in safe sex practices due to a diminished fear of HIV/AIDS are factors contributing to rising rates of sexually transmitted illnesses such as syphilis, g…

A B.C. nurse sexually assaulted a 73-year old patient he was supposed to be treating for a foot wound and can no longer practise as a registered nurse, according to the College of Registered N…