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 …

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 …

It is late evening and the lineup in the waiting room of the Iyet Maternity Centre in Bandung, Indonesia, begins to swell with pregnant women. Iyet Ratnasih, owner of 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 …

Analysts have warned that Indonesia will not meet its Millennium Development Goal for maternal health. Can the country prove them wrong?

Canada’s e-health disconnect doesn’t stem from a lack of effort. Convinced that electronic connections between patients and clinicians will forge better, cheaper health care, the provincial and federal governments have …