Health

TORONTO — A group of HIV positive chefs will run a first-of-its-kind pop-up restaurant to combat the stigma faced by people living with the illness.

NEW YORK — A federal panel recommended Wednesday that older people already vaccinated for shingles get a new, better shot.

OTTAWA — NDP Indigenous youth critic Charlie Angus called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday to end what he calls a "child-focused system of apartheid" in Canada.

TRENTON, N.J. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rejected an experimental drug for a common type of muscular dystrophy. The FDA's decision Wednesday was expected because the agency had said the drug didn't work in two key patient tests.

TORONTO — It will soon be illegal to protest outside and near abortion clinics in Ontario.

TORONTO — General Mills Canada says it's removing the gluten-free label from future Cheerios cereal boxes as it awaits consistent government testing protocols for products containing oats.

WASHINGTON — Scientists are altering a powerful gene-editing technology in hopes of one day fighting diseases without making permanent changes to people's DNA. The trick: Edit RNA instead, the messenger that carries a gene's instructions.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia doctor has been criticized by the province's medical regulator for describing his treatments as capable of melting fat. Dr. Christian Hackshaw is also cited in the Sept.

In a story Oct. 20 about U.S. approval of GlaxoSmithKline's shingles vaccine, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the drugmaker is testing its new vaccine against an older one sold by Merck & Co.

OTTAWA — The technology used in the field of medicine has grown by leaps and bounds over the past century, but when the Canada Science and Technology Museum reopens in Ottawa next month, a new exhibit in the 7,400-square-metre space will be asking vi