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CentreBC leader Elenore Sturko – party candidate for Surrey South – made a brief stop in White Rock this morning (Tuesday, Oct. 13), near Peace Arch Hospital’s emergency room, to announce her party’s plan to make health care more accessible. “Too many British Columbians are struggling to access health care, waiting to be attached to a family doctor, waiting for a diagnosis, or waiting for surgery,” Sturko said.

Bioengineer.org news storyFor millions of people living with HIV, antiretroviral therapy has transformed a once-fatal infection into a manageable chronic condition. Yet the very drugs that suppress the virus can carry quiet costs, and one of the most insidious is bone loss. Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, or TDF, has been a cornerstone of HIV treatment worldwide for two decades, prized for its potency, durability, and low cost. But a growing body of evidence has linked TDF exposure to measurable reductions in bone mineral density, raising an increasingly urgent clinical question: once bone has been lost on a TDF-based regimen, can it be recovered? A new prospective cohort study, published in BMC Infectious Diseases, offers some of the most detailed longitudinal evidence to date that the answer, for many patients, is yes. The research team enrolled 223 virologically suppressed men living with HIV who had low bone mineral density while taking TDF-based antiretroviral therapy.