Shawn Chesney smiles as he deftly pries opens a craggy oyster shell with a stubby knife and frees the glistening meat inside. Shellfish isn't just an appetizer at Oyster Express, his Vancouver restaurant. "Oysters really do transcend class. They transcend race. They transcend...

Naturopathic physicians have the lowest rate of COVID-19 vaccination of all regulated health practitioners in British Columbia at just 69.2 percent, followed by chiropractors at 78.1 per cent and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and acupuncturists at 79 per cent, while dieticians, physicians and...

Health Minister Adrian Dix and Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry will give an update on COVID-19 vaccinations at 12:30 p.m. PT. Last month, B.C. started rolling out fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for seniors over 70 and Indigenous people aged...

More than two years after thousands of non-urgent surgeries were cancelled due to the pandemic, officials say B.C.'s health-care system has almost caught up by performing a record number of surgeries over the last year.The Ministry of Health said Wednesday...

In October 1921, a woman named Margaret Robertson lay dying in Vancouver General Hospital from a failed abortion induced by slippery elm bark.A police detective showed up — the second time he had come to grill her for the name...

British Columbia's provincial health officer says all 17 pediatric hospitals across the country are looking out for an "unusual" childhood liver disease but the number of possible cases remains in the single digits.Dr. Bonnie Henry told reporters none of the...

Finding a family doctor in British Columbia is almost impossible and policy decisions made decades ago could be partly to blame.Recent figures show that almost a million British Columbians don't have a family physician, while wait-times for walk-in clinics are higher than in...

B.C. Premier John Horgan said Sunday that the province is currently at a "good point" with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic, but one expert says there is little data to back up his comment.Horgan was interviewed on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live, where...

This First Person article is from Jennifer Chrumka, a radio journalist based in Kamloops, B.C. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ.It was a cool morning early last spring and I was interviewing a rancher about...