Michelle Gamage

In a lab setting, bloodroot has been shown to reduce the growth of the bacteria that cause the disease.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia are using a North American wildflower called bloodroot — long used by First Nations in traditional medicine — to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Bill C-64, given royal assent this month, takes aim at contraceptives and diabetes medications first.

The proposed settlement also doesn’t include measures to reduce future smoking, advocates say.

A Canada-wide lawsuit holding Big Tobacco accountable for the individual and public harms caused by its products might conclude with the public receiving a fraction of its original damages claim.

Canada’s proposed $32.5 billion settlement with major tobacco companies could close out a decades-long lawsuit but leaves out measures that would limit future tobacco sales, critics say.

BC Children's Hospital Research Institute has found a way that kids' immune systems might be able to be used to help fight off the most common type of childhood cancer.

A BC study found infant mice infected with a mild virus don’t develop leukemia. Could this work for humans?

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