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 …

The first comprehensive look at persistent toxic substances (PTS) across the Russian Arctic reinforces what studies in other Arctic nations have revealed: that indigenous peoples in this northern swath of …

When Robert Hale travelled down to Chesapeake Bay on the coast of Virginia to take a professorship at the Institute of Marine Science in Glocester Point, he expected to be …