Last Thursday afternoon, British Columbia's health-care professionals, and the overall health-care system, showed world-class skills, co-ordination, professionalism and compassion after a terrible accident on the Coquihalla Highway.

The Province of B.C. and Ron Mattson today announced that they have settled Mr. Mattson’s claims in B.C. Supreme Court arising from the termination of Mr. Mattson’s employment in September 2012.

In response to Robert Oliphant's column ("Drug switch puts cash before patients," Aug. 12) I'd like to give the facts about PharmaCare's decision to change which DPP-4 inhibitor drugs it covers for diabetics.

The Professional Association of Residents of B.C. and the Health Employers Association of B.C. have ratified their agreement under the Province's Economic Stability Mandate.

Provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall released his second report on B.C.'s opioid substitution treatment system, showing both methadone and the newer Suboxone have helped decrease mortality rates and reduce health-care costs for opioid dependent patients.

For those British Columbians and their families who are struggling with addiction, more help is on the way with a $3-million investment to expand and support a provincial addiction medicine education and research training program for clinicians, making it the largest in North America.

The Advanced Specialty Certificate in Community Care Licensing at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC), a one-of-a kind program in Canada, received a boost with $600,000 in provincial funding.