Cindy E. Harnett

Using cryotherapy guided by non-invasive ultrasound, Victoria doctors are helping patients with spasticity to unlock their arms, fists, and legs from frozen positions.

There were no reported injuries to staff or patients from the crash, according to Island Health.

Island Health is introducing the new process — already in use at the Central Nanaimo, Cowichan and Lower Mainland Urgent and Primary Care Centres — to reduce delays for those who need urgent care.

Just after 2 p.m. Monday, police received a report of a man with an edged weapon demanding money from a business in the 3700-block of Quadra Street.

Drug-checking service warns the synthetic opioid nitazene is showing up in counterfeit pills sold as oxycodone, percocet and hydromorphone.

The arrest and seizures follow complaints about street disorder, drug use and increasing overdoses in the neighbourhood.

One person was pinned inside a vehicle for more than 30 minutes and had to be extricated by firefighters.

Maternity clinic at Victoria General set up to address crisis slated to close in new year

A memo from pediatricians to their non-ER physician colleagues said that the Urgent Pediatric Assessment Clinic at Victoria General Hospital will close on Sept. 1.

Dr. Sandra Sirrs is one of at least five people who resigned from the province’s expensive drugs for rare diseases committee in the wake of the province’s decision to restore funding

Brayden Robbins, an 11-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, died on his second visit in seven days to the ER at Comox Valley Hospital.

Elizabeth May denounced what she calls “Big Pharma’s” unchecked ability to charge whatever it wants for treatments and medications.

Dr. Brad Nelson has been named B.C. Cancer Victoria’s Lynda and Murray Farmer Immunotherapy Research Chair.

Mother Jori Fales says daughter Charleigh, who has a rare fatal condition, likely won’t see her 11th birthday due to the decision to stop covering the drug

Women earned on average 85 cents for every dollar men earned in 2024, a recently released report says — the fourth-highest gender pay gap in Canada

Stephanie McLean, a lawyer and former Alberta NDP MLA who represents Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, is "basically a junior minister," says University of Victoria political scientist Michael Prince.

Kim McCullough says since his father moved to the facility in late fall, he’s seen mice “scurrying in rooms, mouse droppings on the floors, on bedside furniture and in closets of residents”

Island Health plans to create an in-patient mental-health and substance unit for youth at the adult facility

A Liberal surge could edge out some NDP incumbents or result in vote-splitting that delivers victory to Conservatives

Health Minister Josie Osborne says radiation therapy wait times now meet national benchmarks