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 …

The federal government must crackdown on the use of antibiotics such as cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones within the nation’s meat industry because of the threat that antibiotic resistance poses to public …

Critics say One of the architects of Canada’s ehealth strategy says it entirely missed the boat because of an excessive focus on developing massive centralized data systems rather than directly …

“Ottawa’s new approach is to criminalize what should still be seen as a health issue,” says Cathy McIsaac, executive director of Direction 180, a methadone clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia. …