In the fight to cut infant mortality, is the world focused on the wrong diseases? For Ashok Talyan, putting children first is more than a sentimental idea. With him, it’s …
Residents of Canada’s Aamjiwnaang reserve have long blamed their health problems on the petrochemical plants that crowd the landscape. But scant evidence supported their claims — until now.
How long should wait times be for most medical procedures? The answers are surprisingly elusive. In this election campaign, wait times for surgery and other medical treatments are once …
Developing world: More handwashing would reduce diarrhea-related deaths, doctor says NEW DELHI – Dr. Shambhu Nath sees the infectious diseases behind a million deaths in India annually rather differently from …
Despite the growing attention being paid to the cause of international debt relief, led by celebrities such as Bono, little has actually been done to ease the financial burden on …
Advances against polio made in 2004 were lauded by WHO as “the most important progress ever made towards a polio-free world”. But the success of the global eradication initiative still …
Two studies from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) linking hospitals that perform larger volumes of surgery to better patient outcomes are prompting another round of soul-searching over the …
Doubling federal funding for health is a key pledge of the Canadian government’s ambitious plan to strengthen health care. The strategy should appease critics who blame underfunding of health services …
High levels of toxic contaminants have been recorded in several Arctic regions. But the full health effects of exposure to these chemicals are only just emerging. Meet the scientists studying …