Health
Farting Helps Fight Cancer, Scientists Report
Scientists have claimed that the toxins inside farts can actually help fight cancer, as well as a number of other...
GHS Training on Ebola and Cholera Surveillance Ends
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has held an Ebola and Cholera surveillance and contact tracing training for health...
World Health Organization: Nigeria and Senegal – Model Test Cases for Effective Ebola Control
(Geneva,GNA) – The World Health Organisations (WHO) says Senegal and Nigeria offers a test case for the world on how...
Drugmakers to Join Forces to Make Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses
(Africa,Reuters) - Leading drugmakers plan to work together to speed up the development of an Ebola vaccine and hope to...
Media Foundation for West Africa Board calls for intensified Ebola response
(Accra,GNA) – The Board of Directors of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has expressed concern about the...
The Fight Against Ebola – VICE News
The international news organization VICE News visited Liberia to provide a front line perspective of the uphill battle...
Are Ghanaians Nomophobic?
Are you in the category of individuals who pick up their phones as the first thing they check when they wake up? Are...
Synthetic Molecule Based Anti-Ebola Drug Developed By University of Utah
There's more hope that an Ebola-fighting drug is on its way. Biochemists at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in...
Gates Foundation Pledges $50m to fight Ebola
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $50m on Wednesday to support emergency efforts to contain West Africa's...
Save Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme From Collapse
(Accra,GNA) – The Universal Access to Health Care Campaign (UAHC) has urged government to consider mobilising...
Here’s How The Number of People Who Have Been Killed By The Ebola Virus – 2000
More than 2,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Friday,...
South Sudan: MSF Reduces Cholera Activities after Treating 3,300 Cases
(South Sudan,Médecins Sans Frontières) A significant decline in the number of new cholera cases in South Sudan in...
Central Region Records 20 Cholera Deaths
(Cape Coast, GNA) - Twenty people have died since cholera broke out in the Central Region in July, Dr. Kwaku Anin...
Hospital Appeals for Support to Handle Cholera Cases
(Cape Coast, GNA) - The Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) has appealed to the Central Regional Coordinating Council...
Health Warning Against the Use of Ciprofloxacin as a Vaccine Against Cholera
(Ho, GNA) - Dr Atsu Seake-Kwawu, Ho Municipal Director of Health Services on Wednesday warned the public against taking...
Africa Has Lowest Tobacco Use in Pregnant Women
A study published in the September edition of the Lancet Global Health Journal shows that the Africa Region, has the...
Africa Development Bank Supports Ebola Countries With $60M
The Deputy Health Minister Dr Victor Bampoe says the Africa Development Bank has earmarked $60m for countries affected...
Doctor Dies of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria’s Port Harcourt
A doctor in Port Harcourt who treated a primary contact of Nigeria's patient zero for the Ebola outbreak has died from...
When Ignorance Cannot Be Ignored ! Open Defecation
Public officials sometimes make utterances they wish they could take back. There are the select few who put their foot...