10 years after American and British forces toppled Saddam Hussein and helped initiate a decade of intense violence, life expectancy at birth in Iraq is 59 years—at least 12 years …

Analysts have warned that Indonesia will not meet its Millennium Development Goal for maternal health. Can the country prove them wrong?

50 years after Canada implemented universal access to health care, Canadian politicians say the survival of the country’s network of government-funded health systems is in jeopardy. Spooked by rapidly increasing …

Canada has cut support for several national Aboriginal-led initiatives, leaving few Indigenous people in a position to steer health policy for their communities. Deep budget cuts to Aboriginal health groups …

Health workers in Mali are warning of an increasingly desperate health situation in the north of the country following a military coup and violent clashes. Medical relief workers in northern …

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.

Several developing nations are joining the revolution in electronic health records to improve efficiency in their health systems, but at a fraction of the usual cost.

G8 nations backed Canada’s plan to improve maternal health in developing countries last week despite the country’s refusal to fund groups that do safe abortions. Three months after Canadian Prime …

Thanks to a small cadre of village volunteers, trained in basic health-care concepts, western Uganda is beginning to see some promising improvements in child health.

Pointing to the global dissemination of a category of bacterial plasmids that are impervious to cephalosporins along with several other antibiotics,David Livermore, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference …