Palliative in BC: a daughter's view of the health care system
In November 2011, my mother was labelled palliative... read more
View ArticleMeditation and chronic pain
If neither you nor anyone immediate to you has had chronic pain, it is nearly impossible to relate to. read more
View ArticleRemembering Raylene Rankin
She started thinking about mortality and how to stop being afraid of the ultimate fear.read more
View ArticleHow Aaron Swartz paved way for Jack Andraka's revolutionary cancer test
Jack Andraka's studies about pancreatic cancer would have never come about were it not for open access to online journals -- the very thing Aaron Swartz was promoting before his death. read more
View ArticleAntibodies as drugs: Vancouver hosts conference on therapeutic use of antibodies
The human body has often been compared to war ridden landscape and our immunological system to an army that fights against the attacks of bacterial infections.read more
View ArticleVIFF picks for Wednesday and Thursday
Ralph Fiennes plays Charles Dickens and Felicity Jones his out-of-wedlock lover in The Invisible Womanread more
View ArticleTom Cruise’s fiery comeback, Marion Cotillard’s travails as The Immigrant and...
Note also the tragic teen love affair of The Fault in our Starsread more
View Article'Inside Out', 'Me and Earl' and 'Testament of Youth': all four-star films
A stellar trio of new releases plus the Taiwan Film Festival and a Nepal earthquake fundraiser screening of 'Monk with a Camera.'read more
View ArticleFreaked by meat-cancer study? A butcher, doctor and 100-mile dieter offer tips
A meat story got international attention this week when the World Health Organization announced that regularly eating processed meats —such as hot dogs, salami and bacon —as well as red meats in...read...
View ArticleBond shoots again, Suffragettes fight the power and a boy named Theeb tops...
Also Drew and Toni as friends, the man who felled the Golden Spruce and three film festivalsread more
View ArticleA Hollywood black mark in Trumbo, a new Rocky in Creed and an infamous psych...
Also new European films, a slacker’s turnaround and dinosaurs for the kidsread more
View ArticleBC Cancer Agency launches digital mammography vehicles to serve women in...
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among Canadian women. In fact, according to the BC Cancer Agency, in 2015 an estimated 3,400 women were diagnosed with the disease in the...read more
View ArticleLaughter Yoga helps restore psychological and physical health around the world
The first time Amy Kiara Ruth took a Laughter Yoga class she found it, "awkward and bizarre to be laughing with total strangers." Then she gave in, laughing harder than ever...read more
View ArticleHome invasion blunders, a singer battling cancer and a Latin American film...
Also a football player’s ALS fight and a chilly but amusing Scandinavian revenge plotread more
View ArticleAntibodies as drugs: Vancouver hosts conference on therapeutic use of antibodies
The human body has often been compared to war ridden landscape and our immunological system to an army that fights against the attacks of bacterial infections.read more
View ArticleVIFF picks for Wednesday and Thursday
Ralph Fiennes plays Charles Dickens and Felicity Jones his out-of-wedlock lover in The Invisible Womanread more
View ArticleTom Cruise’s fiery comeback, Marion Cotillard’s travails as The Immigrant and...
Note also the tragic teen love affair of The Fault in our Starsread more
View Article'Inside Out', 'Me and Earl' and 'Testament of Youth': all four-star films
A stellar trio of new releases plus the Taiwan Film Festival and a Nepal earthquake fundraiser screening of 'Monk with a Camera.'read more
View ArticleFreaked by meat-cancer study? A butcher, doctor and 100-mile dieter offer tips
A meat story got international attention this week when the World Health Organization announced that regularly eating processed meats —such as hot dogs, salami and bacon —as well as red meats in...read...
View ArticleBond shoots again, Suffragettes fight the power and a boy named Theeb tops...
Also Drew and Toni as friends, the man who felled the Golden Spruce and three film festivalsread more
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