In a sign that international concern about infectious diseases is attracting attention in military circles, the United States government has launched the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), a multinational effort …
After the SARS disaster killed 44 people in Ontario in 2003, the federal government was advised by an expert panel to bolster a “system that will collect, analyze, and disseminate …
10 years after American and British forces toppled Saddam Hussein and helped initiate a decade of intense violence, life expectancy at birth in Iraq is 59 years—at least 12 years …
The incongruities and subtleties are sometimes startling, but then, they typically are when the worlds of religion and medicine intersect and there’s no reason to expect that Indonesia, the world’s …
Anajulia Caicedo and her two children fled 500 kilometers to Ciudad Bolivar, a huge slum outside Colombia’s capital city of Bogotá when fighting erupted in 2006 between the army and …
Fifteen months after the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) terminated its national committee dedicated to tackling antibiotic resistance, the federal government continues to resist calls for a new national …
Microbiologists are urging that Canada ramp up its surveillance of another strain of bacteria — carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC) — by screening Canadians who’ve been hospitalized in the United States, Israel and …
The World Health Organization (WHO) and public health agencies around the world must significantly ramp up screening and surveillance of a new breed of drug-resistant bacteria carrying the gene for …
Thanks to a small cadre of village volunteers, trained in basic health-care concepts, western Uganda is beginning to see some promising improvements in child health.