We've heard about the threat that United States tariffs pose to Canadian economic security. But a different kind of insecurity now looms with new leadership from our southern neighbors: insecurity in global health.

Every day, an estimated 400,000 people cross the Canada-U.S. border, the largest land border in the world. And there are about 800,000 Canadian citizens living in the United States. All this means the infectious disease threat could be even more pressing for Canadians.

Those working at the World Health Organization had been expecting the worst — but U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order still stung. Dr. Prabhat Jha, a professor of Global Health with the University of Toronto,

TORONTO — A Canadian global health specialist says staff at the World Health Organization are “devastated” by President Donald Trump’s executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency. Dr. Madhukar Pai, the Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Health, is at the WHO headquarters in Geneva this week for meetings about tuberculosis.

A new report says Canada’s health-care system has fallen behind international ... in addition to statistics from the World Health Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

Neither the FDA or Health Canada has established a link between the dye and cancer in humans, but the Food and Drug Administration explained its decision as ‘a matter of law’

"The bottom line is that withdrawing from the WHO makes Americans and the world less safe," says Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of the nonprofit health organization Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Proponents hope a new benefit for Alabamians on Medicare stays in effect. A two-thousand-dollar cap on prescription drug through Medicare Plan D went into effect on January first. The website health i

Donald Trump’s re ascendancy to presidency will doubtless mark a return to much of the frivolity that he introduced in 2016. The caveat will be chapter two of the upheaval brought about to diplomacy,

During the last year of his initial term, Trump started making efforts to pull the United States out of the WHO.

Members of Generation X and millennials are at a growing risk of cancer, and the science is far from settled on the cause. In the meantime, young Canadians struggle to get diagnosed in a timely fashion,