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When Dr. Paul Keown started his medical career, organ rejection rates for kidneys were almost 80 per cent.
Today, those rates are lower.
That's due, in part, to Keown's clinical trials evaluating treatments that stop organ rejection as well as advances in organ matching.
It was announced this week that the Delta resident had received Clinical Trials BC's 2025 Leadership and Advocacy Award.
“The award is a great honour. And to have it conferred by colleagues and friends of many years is wonderful,” Keown said in a release.
Keown has played a key role in establishing multi-organ transplant networks in B.C. Read the full story on the Delta Optimist.
Meanwhile, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has awarded a convicted Kelowna bank robber $10,000 after his criminal record got in the way of a new, legitimate work opportunity.
“The saying ‘once a criminal, always a criminal’ has no place in our society,” tribunal member Devyn Cousineau said in the decision.
The tribunal ruled the way the man, referred to as "Mr. T," was fired had a significant impact on his mental health and well-being. Read the full story on Castanet.
A few weeks ago, Vancouver Coastal Health said it was launching a small-scale mosquito surveillance pilot project in the Sea to Sky region.
The initiative was in response to four people becoming ill last summer after being bit.
Mosquito traps have been set up at select sites throughout the region, allowing public health officials to update its list of mosquito species in the area and test them for potential human pathogens.
The Squamish Chief caught up with Dr. Moliehi Khaketla, Sea to Sky medical health officer with Vancouver Coastal Health, to find out more. Read the Q&A.
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