CANADA’S DOCTOR SHORTAGE: The Crisis Worsened By Our Medical Education System’s Inability To Expand Capacity

By Promod PuriCanada is grappling with a severe shortage of doctors, especially family physicians. Recent estimates suggest the country needs at least 23,000 more to meet its current healthcare demand...

ADDICTION: Don’t Get High On Booze And Drugs As Death And Destruction Looms

Addiction always gives away from gratification to self destruction. Our brains get structured over time to get into this destructive pattern of drinking too much and then drugs, until it’s too late ...

Fraser health Warns Of Unauthorized Ayurvedic products Sold By All in One Wholesale Cash and Carry In Surrey

LEAD POISONING: Fraser Health is warning the public about the health risks associated with unauthorized Ayurvedic medicine sold by All in One Wholesale Cash and Carry in Surrey. The products may be co...

Dr. Sonia Singh Honoured With 2024 Michael Smith Health Research BC Professional-Investigator Award

Dr. Sonia Singh, a hospitalist physician and osteoporosis specialist, is the third Fraser Health physician to receive the prestigious Michael Smith Health Research BC Professional-Investigator Award. ...

COVID-19 Mandate Officially Ended By BC Government

The BC government and its COVID-19 lead Dr. Bonnie Henry, BC's provincial health officer (PHO), has officially ended the pandemic mandate. "As British Columbia's provincial health officer, I am issuin...

Baylis Medical Technology Head Meets Members Of Indo-Canadian Community

Members of the local Indo-Canadian community met Frank Baylis, Executive Chairperson of the Baylis Medical Technologies in Surrey, and discussed issues related to health care, education, justice, immi...

Pharmacist Sukhpreet Singh Sidhu Suspended After Alleged 'Inappropriate' Dispensing Of Narcotics

An Indo-Canadian pharmacist managing a South Vancouver pharmacy has been suspended after questionable conduct the second time. Health Hub Pharmacy manager Sukhpreet Singh Sidhu's pharmacist registrati...

Mental Health Affects Us All But We Need To Band Together To Help Nip It In The Butt

By Zile Singh“An enlightened mind is like heaven; a mind in darkness is like hell.” – a Chinese proverb.The mind is the man. Man is a balanced combination of body, mind, and soul. In the absence...

BC To Expand Mental-Health, Addictions Support For South Asian community

BC government announced that expanded support is coming for mental health and addictions for the South Asian community, which is struggling with mental-health or addictions challenges in greater Vanco...