Health

How—and why—people go from owning one or two pets, to 200

What do the stories of a million Indian deaths say about global health? A Toronto researcher aims to find out.

A very experimental, no-incision surgery is finding followers in the medical community

Women love the new Hula Hoop craze: ’My waist has a lot more definition’

Researchers are finally exploring distress at the dinner table

A miracle treatment for cancer discovered in the mouth of the North American shrew

Police are suddenly cracking down on medical marijuana clubs

Barbed protection against sexual assault during the FIFA World Cup

Anger and insurrection disrupt annual meeting

New research to detect lung cancer sooner is under way in Canada and in the U.S.