Few cases of prison brutality have attracted more attention than that of Ashley Smith, the 19-year-old who strangled herself in October 2007, while under observation by the Correctional Service of …
Twelve years after Nova Scotia integrated the health care offered in its provincial prisons into its public health system, the province’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Robert Strang, says the …
10 years after American and British forces toppled Saddam Hussein and helped initiate a decade of intense violence, life expectancy at birth in Iraq is 59 years—at least 12 years …
The incongruities and subtleties are sometimes startling, but then, they typically are when the worlds of religion and medicine intersect and there’s no reason to expect that Indonesia, the world’s …
It is late evening and the lineup in the waiting room of the Iyet Maternity Centre in Bandung, Indonesia, begins to swell with pregnant women. Iyet Ratnasih, owner of the …
When Irsan Nasution, a bus driver in the Indonesia capital of Jakarta, fell off a roof and severely injured his back and wrists two years ago, he knew he was …
