B.C. Premier Christy Clark lauded Hillary Rodham Clinton's call today for an AIDS-free generation and scaling up a Treatment as Prevention strategy as part of a comprehensive proposal to fight HIV and AIDS.

Ensuring seniors in B.C. are supported to live healthy, independent lives is the focus of Senior's Fall Prevention Awareness week, Nov. 7-13.

The cases of five teenagers who committed suicide in the Comox Valley since 2009 share few similarities, an analysis by the BC Coroners Service has found.

The Province today introduced the Nurse Practitioners Statutes Amendment Act, 2011, allowing nurse practitioners (NPs) to work within their existing scope of practice.

Members of the Community Social Services Bargaining Association have ratified the agreement reached with the Community Social Services Employers' Association under the government's 2010 mandate, announced Finance Minister Kevin Falcon.

Cancer patients on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands now have access to a new integrated cancer care service that combines the broader concepts of health with standard therapies.

Catherine Romanko has been appointed public guardian and trustee of British Columbia. The appointment was effective Oct. 10, 2011, for a six-year term. Romanko succeeds Jay Chalke, who served for 11 years.

The Province will continue to support shelter spaces in the City of Vancouver this winter with ongoing funding for HEAT shelters and an expansion of the Extreme Weather spaces.