Cases of cancer and hypertension are much higher among Inuit living in and around Ottawa than for the general population of Canada's capital city. This is according to a study co-led by Janet Smylie ...

A newly discovered gene defect among people of Inuit ancestry in Greenland, Canada and Alaska will possibly lead to screening of all newborn Inuits as they will otherwise be at risk of dying from ...

Cases of cancer and hypertension are much higher among Inuit living in and around Ottawa than for the general population of Canada's capital city. This is according to a study co-led by Janet Smylie ...

Residents of an Inuit territory in Canada have worse survival following a diagnosis of lung cancer than similar patients living in Montreal, according to a new study. The investigators conducted a ...

A Canadian Inuit leader applauded Greenlanders voting in favour of more independence from Denmark this week, saying the vote benefits not only Greenland's mostly Inuit population, but all Inuit around ...

Maatalii Okalik, 31, the former National Inuit Youth Council president and one of the subjects in Nat Geo Wild's new documentary The Last Ice, has been a political advocate for Indigenous peoples ...

A new study has found that an Inuit population in Canada's Arctic are genetically distinct from any known group, and certain genetic variants are correlated with brain aneurysm. A new study has found ...

Mary Simon, who on Monday became the first indigenous person to be named governor general of Canada, has fought to preserve her people’s way of life. Mary Simon ...

NUUK — As Ottawa looks to use military spending to build up infrastructure in the Far North, Inuit say they want Canada to take tips from Greenland — where a Nordic social model adapted to local needs ...