HLI in the News

The HLI and our people in the media:

Shaping Cardiac Care
Source: Global BC, March 4, 2010

Health care, the Canadian way
Source: NBC News, February 25, 2010

Pioneering program helps smokers in hospital beat odds against quitting
Source: Vancouver Sun, January 20, 2010, author: Pamela Fayerman

Heart attack symptoms similar in women, men
Source: The Canadian Press, October 26, 2009

Another step toward personalized medicine
Source: Telegraph-Journal, May 30, 2009, author: Terri Theodore

B.C. geneticists research blood test to replace transplant biopsy
Source: CBC News, May 26, 2009

Marijuana may increase smokers' risks, study says
Source: Globe and Mail, April 14, 2009, author: Carly Weeks

Pot and tobacco smoking bad combination: B.C. study
Source: National Post, April 13, 2009, author: Pamela Fayerman

Heart + Lung Innovation
Source: Promise, Spring/Summer 2009, author: Vicki O'Brien

VAD Support Group (mechanical heart pumps)
Source: CBC News, March 9, 2009

Pulmonary Embolism Tied to Severe COPD Exacerbations
Source: MedPage Today, March 6, 2009, author: Michael Smith

Health minister shows his heart with transplant speech
Source: Vancouver Sun, December 2, 2008, author: Gerry Bellett

'Bittersweet' celebration marks twenty years of heart transplants
Source: Metro Vancouver, December 2, 2008, author: Kristen Thompson

Teenage boy youngest North American recipient of world’s smallest heart pump
Source: Hospital News, December 2008

B.C. boy may be the youngest to get heart pump
Source: CTV News, October 11, 2008

New pump saving lives at St. Paul's
Source: Vancouver Sun, May 29, 2008, author: Doug Ward

BC docs pioneer valve surgery
Source: National Review of Medicine, November 15, 2007

Canadian docs perfecting heart valve surgery
Source: CTV News, October 24, 2007

New heart surgery helps frail patients
Source: Globe and Mail, October 22, 2007, author: Andre Picard

Canada leads in new heart valve replacement surgery
Source: News-Medical.net, October 22, 2007

Aspirin Less Effective for Women for MI Prevention
Source: MedPage Today, October 18, 2007, author: Crystal Phend

Aspirin against heart disease: just for men?
Source: World Science, October 18, 2007

St. Paul's doctors install two heart pumps to aid patients
Source: Canada.com, September 27, 2007

Student Beats Odds to Overcome Heart Failure
Source: UBC Reports, February 1, 2007, author: Hilary Thomson