Five years after the Ministry of Health set targets for wait times, families are being left to agonize over their kids' futures.

Health Canada has expressed concerns that if antibiotics are given too freely to animals, it raises the risk of antibiotic-resistant diseases developing in people.

Frequent visits mean familiarity at the pharmacy and later riding the balance between a bearable level of pain and enduring hallucinations from the hundreds of dollars' worth of medication bought there.

The politicization of science is not a new problem, but this administration may already be the most antiscience government in Canadian history.

Our columnist continues his dispatches from the front line against cancer. This week, how moving to a small town with great pizza doesn’t help with a lump in his gut.

After more than two decades of living mostly in Vancouver, Evan Adams has returned home to his Sliammon band reserve near Powell River. A prominent gay actor who finished a medical degree and is now British Columbia’s first aboriginal-health physician adviser, Adams is settling in with his partner and their son in their own house.

Why you must always check the whereabouts of your football, and perhaps guard the goodies inside from your friends, too.

There’s a good argument for teaching children basic social and emotional skills, from which they can draw on through their lives.

Nobody wants to die. I’m pretty confident that’s true, although I am just extrapolating from my own opinions on this one.

Dave Watson, the Straight’s AWOL Dot Comment man, circles the drain with a crafty tumour, his liver, and his ladylove, and stays afloat.

Zen Buddhism practitioner Eric Jordan credits regular meditation with making him a better and more patient father.

Tobacco advertising has returned to some newspapers and magazines in Canada, and that has the executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada fuming.

Researchers in UBC labs are now using sophisticated computer programs to pioneer more targeted approaches to superbugs like MRSA and VRE.

Jagdeep Singh was an information-technology professional in India before he moved to Canada. He arrived in September last year, and his family joined him three months later. Singh has yet to find a job, but he sounded very upbeat when he talked to the Georgia Straight by phone from his home in Surrey. “You need some time to adapt to the way things are here,” said the 35-year-old father of one.

Downtown Eastside physician Gabor Maté has a nifty way of measuring some of the financial costs of the war on drugs.