The incongruities and subtleties are sometimes startling, but then, they typically are when the worlds of religion and medicine intersect and there’s no reason to expect that Indonesia, the world’s …
It is late evening and the lineup in the waiting room of the Iyet Maternity Centre in Bandung, Indonesia, begins to swell with pregnant women. Iyet Ratnasih, owner of the …
When Irsan Nasution, a bus driver in the Indonesia capital of Jakarta, fell off a roof and severely injured his back and wrists two years ago, he knew he was …
Arif Hidayat still feels a measure of guilt. As a vendor of cigarettes on an impoverished back street in the Indonesian city of Bogor, Hidayat says he realized most of …
Few indicators have been as lauded, or as reviled, as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Almost from the moment the eight international objectives, complete with 21 targets, were established in …
“My fear is that the government is reverting back to generating Aboriginal health policies without input from Aboriginal researchers,” says Claudette Dumont Smith, executive director of the Native Women’s Association …
Indications of a staggering level of prescription drug abuse by Aboriginal youths have left experts urging a more coordinated approach to the problem: Responses to Health Canada’s national Youth Smoking Survey …
Admit defeat and move on. Canada needs to rethink its ehealth strategy .
Canada Health Infoway must rapidly reboot, and do so in substantial fashion, if it’s to justify public outlays beyond the billions already spent on developing a national electronic health infrastructure, …
The contrast is alarming, experts say. In the United States, judicial decisions and regulatory announcements are becoming daily fodder for news mills as the evidence mounts against subtherapeutic farmyard use …