Poor uninsured Americans, and middle-class households upset at rising health-care bills, have long been arguing for health-care reform. Now, growing numbers of the most wealthy Americans— including many business leaders—are …

In the fight to cut infant mortality, is the world focused on the wrong diseases? For Ashok Talyan, putting children first is more than a sentimental idea. With him, it’s …

General Motors president Rick Wagoner caused controversy when he blamed the US health-care system for his company’s near-bankrupt status. But health care and the US and Canadian automotive industry’s economic …

Developing world: More handwashing would reduce diarrhea-related deaths, doctor says NEW DELHI – Dr. Shambhu Nath sees the infectious diseases behind a million deaths in India annually rather differently from …

Canadian scientists are helping Russia battle the growing scourge of AIDS LATE ONE AFTERNOON, Vinay Saldanha of Mississauga, Ont., finishes up another day at the Russian Federal AIDS Centre — …

With Russia’s HIV infection epidemic now thought to be exploding faster than anywhere else in the world, the hunt for clues about the epidemic’s causes, and how to curb it, …