While substantial progress has been made globally on aspects of child and maternal survival, including efforts to fight malnutrition and major diseases such as AIDS and malaria, the deaths of …

When it comes to helping farmers in impoverished nations, does Canada’s left hand know what its right hand is doing?

One of two documentary films about the ring of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean, from ProspectTV. Situé à proximité de Mexico, le Popocatepetl est le deuxième volcan d’Amérique du Nord …

Several developing nations are joining the revolution in electronic health records to improve efficiency in their health systems, but at a fraction of the usual cost.

The government of Nunavut is “covering up” information indicating that a wave of flu-like illness that is sweeping Nunavut’s communities in recent weeks is actually an epidemic of respiratory syncytial …

In Russia’s remotest corner the descendants of gulag prisoners and guards now work side by side under Canadian bosses.

A global “landscape analysis” of health information systems in developing countries commissioned by the Bill & Linda Gates Foundation in 2010 praised Belize’s achievement as world-leading.

Fifteen months after the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) terminated its national committee dedicated to tackling antibiotic resistance, the federal government continues to resist calls for a new national …

Microbiologists are urging that Canada ramp up its surveillance of another strain of bacteria — carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC) — by screening Canadians who’ve been hospitalized in the United States, Israel and …