The province says there's no evidence to show the drug is still working. A Batten disease expert say they're relying on old data.

Charleigh Pollock's mother says the family has gone through a roller-coaster of emotions since learning the B.C. government ...

Charleigh is one of fewer than 20 children in Canada with this rare condition. She is the only patient in B.C. and was diagnosed just a few weeks before her fourth birthday.

The Canada Drug Agency has now done the review for Brineura and based on that review, the province determined the drug was no longer eligible for funding.

A nine-year-old Langford girl received her last publicly funded infusion of an expensive drug for a rare fatal disease on ...

The B.C. government will end vital treatment for Charleigh Pollock, a 9-year-old girl suffering from the rare, neurodegenerative Batten disease.

The drug, which costs about $1 million a year, is intended to slow the decline in patients’ ability to walk and talk until ...

The British Columbia government says it will no longer fund an expensive drug for a nine-year-old girl who has a rare and ...

The province is standing by its decision to pull the funding for a medication for a young terminally-ill girl with a rare ...

B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne said the decision to stop drug coverage for a girl with a rare, fatal disease was ...

The B.C. government said Wednesday it will be pulling funding for an extremely expensive drug used by one person in the ...