Even President Jose Manuel Santos Calderón admitted as much in a 2011 declaration in
which he noted the mixedmarket model needed reform to ensure the “basic principle which …

It took 5001 pairs of twins to per-suade a rheumatology researcher at the Karolinska Institute
in Stockholm, Sweden, that smoking helps to cause arthritis. To reach that finding, Per-…

While American legislators contemplate criminalizing sex-selective abortion, experts say the
experience of other nations which have tried to impose such a prohibition indicates that it is …

Repudiating advice from two expert advisory panels, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
(CIHR) is ending its MD/PhD Program, which, for more than three decades, has helped …

Speaking at a conference on Indigenous health issues in Toronto in late May, Natan Obed,
leader of the 60 000 Inuit who lay claim to a third of Canada’s vast landmass, reprised his …

As a nurse–practitioner working at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay,
the city that serves as the gateway to Ontario’s northwestern hinterland, Mae Katts thought …

Nabil Al-Khalisi’s preoccupation with the plight of Iraq’s health system has personal roots. In
2010, just 1 year after completing his medical training at Baghdad University, he was forced …

decentralisation of the past decade—a development that can be traced to a 1999 law shaped
by austerityminded World Bank and International Monetary Fund advisers following the …

Officials with UN agencies in Iraq and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies (IFRC) warn that supplies of medicine, food, and fuel have been severely …

News heaving hunks of red meat to core Conservatives. The reduction in support for harm
reduction programs began with nonrenewal of funding for the supervised injection site in …