LOHATA, India—This cluster of poor villages, long known for its colorful silk saris, now is known for something else: tuberculosis. Nearly half of Lohata’s population has...
It may be new to humans, but it appears that the MERS virus or a close cousin may have been infecting camels in parts of the...
NEW DELHI—India marked three years Monday since its last reported polio case, putting the country on course to being formally declared free of the disease later...
OTTAWA—Users of medical marijuana will soon be prohibited from growing their own pot—and the federal government is suggesting they turn to their feline friends for help...
TORONTO—Rose Reisman says people are not only often in denial about how much weight they need to lose, but they also don’t know how to change...
PARIS—The French drug safety agency has approved commercial sales of a medicine derived from cannabis for the first time in France. France’s Health Ministry said in...
TOKYO—Hundreds of people fell sick across Japan after eating frozen food that may have been tainted with a pesticide. Food maker Maruha Nichiro Holdings used full-page...
TORONTO—Infectious disease watchers were worried in the late summer of 2013. The largest annual mass gathering in the world, the Hajj, was approaching. Meanwhile, infections with...
TORONTO—Flu season has swung into full gear in many parts of the country, sowing illness, absenteeism and in some places alarm. Reports of deaths of adults...
SO I HANG by my hands on a bar raised high over the bench. Toes pointed to the grass below and grip firm but everything else...