Sierra Turner knows for a fact that the help she got at St. Paul’s saved her life. Diagnosed with anorexia at 18, Sierra has spent the last six years in an exhausting cycle of recovery/relapse: a cycle many people living with mental illness know all too well. Sierra’s eating disorder was further compounded by anxiety, … Continued
For 50 days, Ed Mejlholm lay in his bed at St. Paul’s wondering if he would live or die. In his darkest moments during the spring of 2017, he doubted he would live long enough to get the heart transplant he so desperately needed. But for the Nanaimo realtor, the path to transplant started almost … Continued
When Dr. Zabrina Brumme was in grad school, the idea of finding a cure for HIV was little more than science fiction.“We thought that a cure would never be possible,” she recalls. A little over a decade later, Brumme says cure research is at the forefront of HIV biomedical science research. It’s also one of … Continued