Dr. Aida Lebbos Saad hatched the idea while working as a pediatrician in an upscale private clinic within Colombia’s capital city of Bogotá. She’d noticed that children from wealthy families …

Fred Coulter traces his decision to sue the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma (Canada) back to 1994, when a heavy roller in the London, Ontario printing plant where he worked fell …

As I arrived in Segovia, a small city in Colombia’s Antioquia province, I was startled to see soldiers fully geared for combat — machine guns poised, helmets strapped tight, field …

The preparations for the evening Mass on Jan. 15 in the Church of Santa Barbara in Marmato, a mountainside mining village in central Colombia, were ordinary in every detail but …

Call it medically induced and law-abiding addiction. Experts says it’s harder to kick than heroin and they’re so astonished by its growing incidence that they’re arguing for Canada to move …

Vastly improved monitoring of addictive painkillers is needed to handle the scourge of inappropriate opioid prescribing, dispensing and use in Canada, experts say. But dithering and empire building by federal …