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 …

Researchers tracking mercury poisoning from artisanal gold mining in Colombia have found that people in Antioquia have the world’s highest per head mercury pollution.

Anajulia Caicedo and her two children fled 500 kilometers to Ciudad Bolivar, a huge slum outside Colombia’s capital city of Bogotá when fighting erupted in 2006 between the army and …

When Dr. Alfredo Pinzon, an internal medicine specialist, stepped into the emergency ward at Hospital Simón Bolivar Hospital in the Colombian capital of Bogotá to confer with a colleague, he …