Completing a full retreat from an e-health strategy based on centralized national records, the government of the United Kingdom has unveiled a 10-year blueprint that aims to put the “power …

Canada has cut support for several national Aboriginal-led initiatives, leaving few Indigenous people in a position to steer health policy for their communities. Deep budget cuts to Aboriginal health groups …

The pledge was ambitious, and welcome, but skeptics are concerned that the next step — developing and implementing policies, programs and more specific targets that actually help reduce the incidence …

Canada’s new mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders are based on “very bad criminal law policy” and constitute a threat to public health as well as the concept of judicial …

Health workers in Mali are warning of an increasingly desperate health situation in the north of the country following a military coup and violent clashes. Medical relief workers in northern …

A $46-million diabetes registry was to have augured a new era of chronic disease management within Ontario. But critics say the overdue registry has been beset by procurement miscues, and …

Call it a quandary of epidemic proportions. Imagine a population group in which 30% of its members have a specific disease. It can be treated, but at a relatively stiff …

While most of the banking community back in Canada continues to fight over a mature domestic market and obsess over halting progress in the United States, Scotia has been busily …

Researchers tracking mercury poisoning from artisanal gold mining in Colombia have found that people in Antioquia have the world’s highest per head mercury pollution.

Anajulia Caicedo and her two children fled 500 kilometers to Ciudad Bolivar, a huge slum outside Colombia’s capital city of Bogotá when fighting erupted in 2006 between the army and …