Linus Sandegren’s hunt for new antibiotic drugs started with a shock. As a drug researcher in Uppsala, a small city in southern den, Sandegren witnessed Europe’s first outbreak of spectrum …

US President Barack Obama is frustrated with the work of contractors, including Canada’s largest technology company, and the sustained problems with the website at the centre of his hard-fought Affordable …

Concerns have flared over possible conflicts of interest of a second member of a panel chosen by the Royal Society of Canada to examine safety levels for cell towers, cellphones …

The decades-long push to bring Canadian health care into the information age focused on building giant data repositories. Patients’ demands for electronic connections to their health care providers are not …

Digital health pioneer Eric Topol charts the impacts of genomics, wireless sensors, mobile devices and other digital heath information technologies.

Mismanagement by government e-health agencies and commercial turf battles are preventing researchers and patients from realizing many of the rewards that the “big data” era could deliver.

After the SARS disaster killed 44 people in Ontario in 2003, the federal government was advised by an expert panel to bolster a “system that will collect, analyze, and disseminate …

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 …