Of the 2,900 babies born last year in Cabell County, West Virginia, 500 had to be weaned off of opioid dependence. In Ohio, counties are renting refrigerated trailers to store the mounting number of...
More than a month after Kim Jong-Nam was murdered in Kuala Lumpur, experts are struggling to make sense of Malaysia's findings that the lethal nerve agent VX was used to kill him without apparent...
British cyclist Josh Edmondson has told the BBC he broke the sport's rules by secretly injecting himself with a cocktail of vitamins when riding for Team Sky. The 24-year-old, who was on the team's...
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal from one of eight inmates facing execution next month, as the state rushes to move forward before the expiration date of one of the drugs...
The Ghana Education Service in Wa in the Upper West Region wants health professionals to intervene to end the abuse of a drug, ‘tramadol’, among pupils of basic schools in the municipality....
A UN drugs body moved Thursday to crack down on the production of chemicals made to use illicit fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid killing thousands in the United States. Fentanyl is a potent...
Human Rights Division of the High Court has adjourn judgment for the second time in the case involving a former Senior Police Officer, DSP Gifty Tehoda was linked to the disappearance of the cocaine...
A Human Rights Division of the High Court has for the second consecutive time deferred judgment in the case involving a former Senior Police Officer, DSP Gifty Tehoda. The Presiding Judge, Justice...
As a way of tackling the menace of plastic waste, this talented Ghanaian builds with plastic bottles… Talk abut making the most out of recycling. A certain Ghanaian man has discovered an unusual...
The Institute for Energy Sector has predicted that prices of gasoline (Petrol) and gasoil (Diesel) at the pump are expected to fall by at least 3% in the last pricing-window in March 2017. In a...
Common painkillers taken by millions of Britons can raise the risk of a heart attack by up to 50 percent, researchers have found. And one, diclofenac, is so dangerous it should not be taken at all,...
Tunisia's coastguard on Monday announced the seizure of 31 kilos of pure cocaine with a value of more than $6 million (six million euros) off its Mediterranean coast facing Italy. The bust came after...
Quantum Power, the pan-African energy infrastructure investment platform, has cut sod for the construction of the Tema LNG Terminal, consisting of facilities for the import, storage and...
Monday marks one month since Kim Jong-Nam was murdered with a lethal nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur International Airport, sparking a fierce diplomatic standoff between Malaysia and North Korea. Here is...
The US state of Arkansas is racing to execute eight death row inmates in 10 days next month to beat the expiration date on a hard-to-get drug used in lethal injections. Death penalty opponents have...
The world's chemical watchdog Friday condemned the use of the deadly VX nerve agent in the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's half-brother last month. The Organisation for the...
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has unveiled gaps within the recently read budget by the Finance Minister on steps to resolve the country’s ailing power situation. In a 9-page document...
At least seven people have died and the death toll is still rising at the Tamale Teaching Hospital following management’s decision to abandon a faulty oxygen producing machine, which serves as a...
At least seven people have died and the death toll is still rising at the Tamale Teaching Hospital following management’s decision to abandon a faulty oxygen producing machine, which serves as a...
More than seven (7) people have died and the death toll is still rising at the Tamale Teaching Hospital after a chaotic and disastrous management decision to abandon a faulty oxygen producing machine...