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Guinea-Bissau presidential election: Here's what you need to know
Hundreds of thousands of voters due to cast ballots on Sunday amid hopes the poll will bring political stability.
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Saudi-led coalition eases restrictions for Yemen capital's airport
The coalition says it will mean patients in need of medical care can be flown out from the rebel-held area.
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New guidelines aim to warn parents about unproven autism treatments
The Canadian Pediatric Society has created new guidelines to advise doctors on how to work with parents seeking alternative, sometimes unproven, treatment for children with autism.
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Sudan healthcare system collapsing after years of conflict
People in rural areas often have to travel for medical care in capital, where residents also struggle to get treatment.
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Zimbabwe healthcare: Millions cannot access medical treatment
Rising inflation and corruption in Zimbabwe mean healthcare is now a luxury only few can afford.
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Occupied East Jerusalem cancer hospital faces financial crisis, shortages
Running out of money and medicine, Palestinian cancer patients suffer after severe cuts by Israel and United States.
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Ask us anything: How is sub-Saharan Africa tackling COVID-19? | The Stream
The Stream hosts a panel of experts from sub-Saharan Africa who will take coronavirus-related questions from the community.
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New research into chronic fatigue syndrome
A group of Canadian researchers is trying to come up with a standard diagnostic test and treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome, which affects roughly 580,000 Canadians.
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Why are Africans in China being targeted?
China stands accused of inhumane treatment against Africans during the coronavirus outbreak.
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HIV drug found to prevent transmission of AIDS-causing virus to sexual partners
An HIV drug has been found to prevent transmission of the AIDS-causing virus during unprotected sex.
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Eating small amounts of peanuts will not cure an allergy, new review suggests
Contrary to what you might have heard, eating tiny amounts of peanuts does not appear to help a child with a peanut allergy build up tolerance. In fact — according to a recent review — they might make things worse, leading to more...
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Doctors call out Canada's 'potentially harmful' funding of homeopaths to Honduras
$350,000 in Canadian foreign aid money is being used to send homeopaths to Honduras, a country struggling with infectious diseases. That's angered many Canadian doctors. In fact, it has some calling this Honduras mission unethical, and...
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Salthaus Co-Founder Is Introducing European Salt Therapy to New York
Breathe deep, New Yorkers: There's a new wellness trend in town. Salthaus is a modern salt room designed to help recharge your body and mind. The salt room modernizes the experience of a natural salt cave right on the Big Apple's Upper...
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Measuring how far Canada has come on World Aids Day
HIV educator John McCullagh says Canada can do a lot more to help people with HIV and AIDS.
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New treatments for severe depression
In Canada, almost a million people live with treatment-resistant depression, so doctors are looking at different approaches that go straight to the source within the brain.
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The million dollar drug that patients can't access
Glybera is a made-in-Canada discovery that made history, becoming the world's first drug approved to treat a genetic disease. But when it went on the market at a price of $1 million, it was immediately labelled the most expensive drug in...
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Google employees around the world walk out to protest sexism, inequality
Hundreds of Google engineers and other employees worldwide walked off the job, protesting the company's treatment of women and its handling of sexual misconduct allegations.
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'Finding the Secret Path': Capturing Gord Downie's final year
Before his passing, Gord Downie took this country on a profound journey. Now, one year later, Gord's brothers take us through his final year full of passion and emotion, and share what it was like to be right by his side the entire way.
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Convicted murderer getting support from Veteran Affairs Canada
A convicted murderer is getting his PTSD treatment paid for by Veteran Affairs Canada, despite having never served.
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China: Smuggling For Survival | 101 East
101 East explores desperate measures Chinese citizens are taking to buy life-saving cancer drugs.
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Police practices questioned after woman goes missing for six days
Mina Iquasiak Aculiak is now safe and in good health, but her case Is raising long-standing concerns about the treatment of people from the north who come south for medical care.
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Scientists divided on hepatitis C testing
A medical recommendation suggests everyone born between 1945 and 1975 should be tested for the virus, but not everyone in the medical field thinks that's a good idea, or a wise investment.
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Candid Opens Store to Straighten New Yorkers' Smiles
The dental start-up, which ships custom teeth aligners online, opened its first brick-and-mortar store to reach more consumers, says co-founder and CEO Nick Greenfield.
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Tuberculosis still a problem in Canada
Tuberculosis is still a major problem in Canada, particularly in northern Indigenous communities. Inuit peoples in dozens of communities across the Arctic are getting tuberculosis at rates 300 times higher than non-Indigenous people born...