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News that an international team of investigators has found the flu drug Tamiflu of little medical use — despite billions spent stockpiling it in B.C. and around the world — comes as bittersweet vindication …
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 …
New restrictions on the use of antibiotics on farm animals in both the United States and Canada may help mitigate risks to human health due to antibiotic resistance. However serious …
US President Barack Obama is frustrated with the work of contractors, including Canada’s largest technology company, and the sustained problems with the website at the centre of his hard-fought Affordable …
Digital health pioneer Eric Topol charts the impacts of genomics, wireless sensors, mobile devices and other digital heath information technologies.
Mention CGI to most people and the first thing that comes to mind—or appears on-screen in a Google search—is computer-generated imagery. But while you may not know about CGI, CGI …
Mismanagement by government e-health agencies and commercial turf battles are preventing researchers and patients from realizing many of the rewards that the “big data” era could deliver.
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Twelve years after Nova Scotia integrated the health care offered in its provincial prisons into its public health system, the province’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Robert Strang, says the …