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  • Group Giving Supports MS Research

    The first fundraiser went so well that the group is now raising $160,000 for a component for the digital fluorescence microscope the first fundraiser purchased, and for materials and lab staff needed to study MS onset and progression in patients.

  • Featured Equipment – Summer 2015

    Help buy new equipment to care for patients.

  • Help fund a CT scanner VGH's Emergency Department

    Every year, tens of thousands of patients at VGH and UBC Hospital undergo a computerized tomography (CT) scan – trauma patients who have been in devastating accidents, cancer patients who are undergoing surgery, patients who are suffering from broken bones, and so many others. In fact, our hospitals conduct more than 50,000 CT scans per year – an average of 140 per day.

  • CT Scanner

    Every year, tens of thousands of patients at VGH and UBC Hospital undergo a computerized…

  • Equipment Gives Researchers Valuable Insight Into Joint Pain

    Tears of relief filled Colleen’s eyes on her last day of physiotherapy for osteoarthritis. Colleen…

  • When time is of the essence, CT scanners help save lives

    Shannon Chin describes how, in a devastating workplace accident in 2012, she suffered a life-threatening…