G8 nations backed Canada’s plan to improve maternal health in developing countries last week despite the country’s refusal to fund groups that do safe abortions. Three months after Canadian Prime …

Canada’s proposed G8 child and maternal health plan may have ignited a Parliamentary brouhaha over its failure to support funding for abortion but it is also drawing favourable reviews from …

Thanks to a small cadre of village volunteers, trained in basic health-care concepts, western Uganda is beginning to see some promising improvements in child health.

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 …

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.

In the mid-1990s, Canadian troops stationed in Somalia were found guilty of torturing and murdering detainees. Now Canadian soldiers and doctors are under investigation again, this time for human rights …

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 …

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 …