Concerns have flared over possible conflicts of interest of a second member of a panel chosen by the Royal Society of Canada to examine safety levels for cell towers, cellphones …

The decades-long push to bring Canadian health care into the information age focused on building giant data repositories. Patients’ demands for electronic connections to their health care providers are not …

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.

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 …

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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 …

When Irsan Nasution, a bus driver in the Indonesia capital of Jakarta, fell off a roof and severely injured his back and wrists two years ago, he knew he was …

Arif Hidayat still feels a measure of guilt. As a vendor of cigarettes on an impoverished back street in the Indonesian city of Bogor, Hidayat says he realized most of …