Mark Wainberg was remembered Wednesday by Canadian LGBT activists and fellow scientists as a groundbreaking HIV researcher and passionate advocate for people living with the disease.

Testing of Daniel's genome turned up a mutation never in a gene known as ARPC1B, which produces a protein the body's cells need to change shape, move, divide and perform other vital functions.

The number of Canadians who smoke tobacco appears to be dropping, a national survey suggests.

Significant increases were found among all age groups, but especially among 18- to 29-year-olds, with the proportion of pot smokers jumping from about 18 per cent in 1996 to 38 per cent in 2015.

Representatives of the Citizens' Reference Panel on Pharmacare in Canada says there should be a new national formulary of medicines which would cover including rare diseases.

After years of being haunted by flashbacks and rage, Kejick Thomas asked police to accompany him on a visit to see his uncle, where he read a letter in Ojibwa to speak his truth.

Although mental health workers are welcome for remote communities, high staff turnover make it impossible to build therapeutic relationships with resident suffering from depression

The Canadian Paediatric Society is urging the federal government to take steps to protect children and youth should it follow through on its plan to legalize recreational marijuana next year.

More Canadians are contracting Lyme disease and federal health officials are partly blaming global warming for a dramatic uptick in cases.