Over 200,000 animals were used in scientific research in 2010 at the University of British Columbia, according to official figures. An information release on Oct. 28 includes the types of animals used and is the first such disclosure from any Canadian university. Animal advocacy activists campaigning for details on the research say UBC has not gone [...]
The University of British Columbia is reviewing its policy on releasing information about animal research, as part of an ongoing legal battle with the advocacy group STOP UBC Animal Research. STOP UBC Animal Research wants UBC to release details about its animal research. The group filed an appeal to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner [...]
Phillip Jeffrey is always working on something – and terminal cancer hasn’t stopped him. Five years after his initial diagnosis, he is busy starting the Creators with Cancer website. In three months, Jeffrey raised almost half of his $5,000 goal to fund a three-month trip to interview artists living with cancer in Canada and showcase [...]
Many cancer patients try to continue living like they did before their diagnosis. Derek Miller is a 41-year-old terminally ill artist who maintained his lifestyle during his battle. Derek Miller is a local Vancouver writer and part-time musician. Doctors diagnosed Miller with colorectal cancer in January 2007 and revealed it was terminal three years later. [...]
A new regulation that gives pharmacy technicians more power will give pharmacists more time. And this is good news for patients and pharmacy students entering the field. Currently pharmacists spend a lot of time on technical work, such as counting pills. This is only a portion of what pharmacists are trained to do. The Pharmacy [...]
By Sam Eifling and Calyn Shaw
More than half of health care workers in Vancouver Coastal Health facilities choose not to get a flu shot, despite efforts by officials to encourage doctors and nurses to get vaccinated. Health care workers can get the influenza vaccine against seasonal flu free of charge but the program is voluntary. Unvaccinated staff risk contracting the [...]
Many health care workers refuse to receive the influenza vaccine, despite the fact that they work with vulnerable patients. Over half of acute care hospital staff do not receive the flu shot. Acute care hospitals receive and treat people suffering from injuries or acute illnesses (such as pneumonia or kidney stones), people rehabilitating from an [...]
A female sex worker could be made safer on the streets of Vancouver for $20 a year. That is the average cost of each woman helped by the van, driven by former sex-trade workers, which travels the streets of Vancouver. The van, known as the Mobile Access Project (MAP), aims to provide services, supplies and [...]
An ambitious multi-million dollar plan to renovate the aging St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver’s West End has yet to secure the funds to pay for the project. Getting a commitment from the province on funding the 115-year-old building’s reconstruction is “like nailing Jell-O to a wall,” said the Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra-Herbert. He was [...]
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