Linus Sandegren’s hunt for new antibiotic drugs started with a shock. As a drug researcher in Uppsala, a small city in southern den, Sandegren witnessed Europe’s first outbreak of spectrum …

The release of a study on congenital birth defects in Iraq has been met with controversy, with some experts questioning its methodology and peer review. WHO officials have stepped in …

In his article, The War on The War on Drugs, Paul Webster investigates the little-known fact that large numbers of law enforcement officers see drug problems through a mental health lens and …

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 …

Digital health pioneer Eric Topol charts the impacts of genomics, wireless sensors, mobile devices and other digital heath information technologies.

In the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, which encompasses most of Ontario’s northern land mass, with a total Aboriginal population of around 45 000 in 49 communities, more than 50% of the …

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 …

Few cases of prison brutality have attracted more attention than that of Ashley Smith, the 19-year-old who strangled herself in October 2007, while under observation by the Correctional Service of …

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 …