There are many reasons Canadians visit Spain's olive and grape bedecked Andalusia province. To frolic and burn on the beaches of Costa del Sol. To discover the meat of the bull killed in the bull ring surprisingly tastes like venison and not beef. To be dazzled and dumbfounded by the Alhambra and the abstraction of beauty that was Moorish Spain. However, as part of a series I am writing on electronic health records I recently visited Andalusia to see an entirely 21st century amazement – an electronic health record system that doctors loved, that pharmacists loved, that hospitals loved, that patients loved, and that seemingly saved everyone time and money.

Stephen Strauss examines why the Copenhagen meeting on climate change in December gave many a sense that the media was ignoring the "science" of global warming.

The anticipated flood of information to your doctor's office brought about by electronic health records could make family medicine worse for the physician but better for the patient.

With the triumph of the transatlantic telegraph as a background, you would think that I should be counseling you to expect solar power from space in your lifetime. I'm not.

Electronic records hold the promise of making health system more efficient, but digitizing a patient's medical history is a lot more complex than it might seem.

There must be a better way for a woman, who is trying to balance HRT's undisputed abilities to lessen the ills of menopause with other potential ills from the treatment itself, to make a more sound decision, writes Stephen Strauss.

A debate is heating up over whether selective breeding is more effective than genetic engineering when it comes to improving livestock.