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A lawsuit in B.C. has been given the go-ahead to proceed against the drugmaker Gilead over its HIV/AIDS medication

Someone who is suing on behalf of a group will try to show that the drug company promoted a medication with harmful effects instead of a safer one that was being created

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B.C. to provide within the province immunotherapy treatment for lymphoma, leukemia

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell Therapy (CAR-T) takes a patient’s white blood cells and alters them genetically to eliminate cancer cells

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The B.C. Supreme Court has approved a lawsuit for a period tracking app used by a million Canadian users

A class action lawsuit claims that Flo Health deliberately violated the privacy rights of users who input personal data into the app to track menstrual cycles, by selling the data

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Unauthorized health products seized from store in Richmond

The federal department says the Tokyo Beauty and Healthcare store located in the Aberdeen Centre mall was selling a number of items for skin treatment or cold-symptom relief labelled as containing prescription or controlled drugs.

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