Health

By HAZEL LOVE As I was wheeled into the operating room at Vancouver General Hospital to have my ruptured appendix removed, I agonized over why it had taken doctors 48 hours to act. Last May, I  arrived at the VGH emergency room in…

By HILARY ANGUS The B.C. government’s new policy of standardized minimum nurse-to-patient ratios will result in better training for nursing students, says a Vancouver critical care nurse. According to Ben Aubrey, a registered nurse at St.…

By EMMA SHULAR Fresh off of a work shift and sitting in a Dairy Queen parking lot around 1 a.m., Vicki Santos talked about her employment situation. “I work at 10 places, two of them are seasonal,” Santos said. She spends almost…

By EMMA SHULAR The importance of gender diversity and related health effects aren’t recognized in healthcare as well as they could be, according to researchers at Western University under the Trans PULSE Canada project. Kalysha…

By Jordan Copp, Nicholas Naylor, and Seth Forward As the weather darkens and the temperature drops, most people tend to cozy up inside. It is also a challenging time of year academically as students wrap up their fall semester.…

By Lesia Pogorelo Cannabis legalization has helped more people than it has hurt, providing relief from a variety of mental and physical ailments, experts say. And they say there is no indication of increased substance abuse issues…

By Meg McLachlan According to the National Initiatives for Eating Disorders in Canada (NIEDC), one in 10 Canadians with an eating disorder, will die from their illness. Langara Voice reporter Meg McLachlan speaks to Gaya Murthy, a…

By Tyson Burrows The B.C. government on Monday told post-secondary institutions to prepare for a fall return to campus. Anne Kang, minister for advanced education and skills training, issued a statement Monday afternoon saying that…