The pledge was ambitious, and welcome, but skeptics are concerned that the next step — developing and implementing policies, programs and more specific targets that actually help reduce the incidence …

Canada’s new mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders are based on “very bad criminal law policy” and constitute a threat to public health as well as the concept of judicial …

Health workers in Mali are warning of an increasingly desperate health situation in the north of the country following a military coup and violent clashes. Medical relief workers in northern …

A $46-million diabetes registry was to have augured a new era of chronic disease management within Ontario. But critics say the overdue registry has been beset by procurement miscues, and …

Call it a quandary of epidemic proportions. Imagine a population group in which 30% of its members have a specific disease. It can be treated, but at a relatively stiff …

While most of the banking community back in Canada continues to fight over a mature domestic market and obsess over halting progress in the United States, Scotia has been busily …