New research reveals that a widely used class of agricultural pesticides is the likely culprit behind the deaths of hundreds of millions of birds. Worse still: Canada continues to market …

Pointing to the global dissemination of a category of bacterial plasmids that are impervious to cephalosporins along with several other antibiotics,David Livermore, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference …

Longstanding federal strategies and polices have exacerbated the rapid spread of Novel A(H1N1) influenza in remote First Nations communities, public health officials and aboriginal health experts charge. The federal government …

The FDA bans injecting chicken eggs with antibiotics as a human health threat but backs down when industry groups — known collectively as ‘Big Chicken’ — squawk.

Alarming new data from the Public Health Agency of Canada suggests that widespread off-label use of cephalosporin antibiotics in poultry hatcheries is triggering human resistance to the class of antibiotics.

Iraq boasts the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves, but much of the country has not even been explored. For WesternZagros, a small, new firm, and for Talisman, its larger, richer …

Six years after the invasion of Iraq, amid continuing violence, the country’s health system, devoid of staff and facilities, is struggling to cope with the needs of the population.

Is smart regulation a smokescreen for government retreat in the face of massive resource developments in the Canadian Arctic?