Doctor Allays Fears
A medical doctor at the Urology Department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KTH), Dr. Bray Lemuel, has asked women whose husbands are suffering from prostate enlargement, cancer and its health...
Tag: Clinical medicine
Mozambique Cholera Outbreak Infects Over 1,200
Mozambique is battling a cholera outbreak that has infected 1,222 people and killed two, the country's health ministry said Tuesday, warning that it has been unable to slow its spread. Four of...
Couple Sue Cardio Centre Over Death of 3yr Old Son
A couple whose three-year-old son died of complications from a surgery to correct his hole-in-heart condition is considering taking legal action against the National Cardiothoracic Centre. Noel and...
Couple To Sue Cardio Centre Over Death of 3-Year-Old Son
A couple whose three-year-old son died of complications from a surgery to correct his hole-in-heart condition is considering taking legal action against the National Cardiothoracic Centre. Noel and...
Renowned Surgeon Visits Koforidua For Medical Mission
Dr. Alejandro Badia, MD, F. A.C.S. hand and upper extremity orthopedic surgeon of the United States, former president of the International Society for Sport Traumatology of the Hand (ISSPORTH) and...
Voiceless Iraqi Coach Inspires Footballers
Kadhim Flayeh taps three fingers on his watch. It's the sign for kick-off: one of Iraq's top football coaches has lost his voice. Cancer forced the 57-year-old to have his larynx removed last year,...
Here Is What Your Farts Reveal About Your Health
Flatulence is the stuff of comedy for people young and old, and it’s not something often discussed in polite company. However, it is something that we all do once in a while. In fact, your farts...
Tamale Teaching Hospital Anaesthetists Hot Over Expired Drug Claims
The management of the Tamale Teaching Hospital and the Food and Drugs Authority have mounted pressure on anesthetists at the facility to reveal the source of expired anaesthesia drugs that got their...
Can Sweat Patches Revolutionise Diabetes?
Scientists have developed a sensor that can monitor blood sugar levels by analysing sweaty skin. But rather than a gym-soaked t-shirt, it needs just one millionth of a litre of sweat to do the...
Police Hospital Dialysis Centre Makes Gains Through Exciting PPP
World Kidney Day falls on 9th March 2017, and as the years go by we are faced with an alarming increase in chronic kidney disease. Across the globe, 10 percent of the population is affected by...
‘World’s Heaviest Woman’ Has Surgery In India, Loses 100 Kgs
Indian doctors said Thursday that an Egyptian who was believed to be the world's heaviest woman had successfully undergone weight-loss surgery after losing over 100 kilograms (220 pounds). Eman Ahmed...
Ghanaians To Pay High Tariff Under ECG Concession
The General Secretary of the Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU), Michael Adumatta Nyantakyi, has admonished government to desist from interfering in the affairs of the Electricity Company of Ghana...
Fisherfolks Run Riot; Beat Up Environmental Taskforce
Fisherfolks in Elmina Bantuma, a suburb of Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region, on the dawn of Friday, February 24, 2017 beat up officials of an...
ECG Sabotaging Akufo-Addo’s Government With ‘dumsor’
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi-Boasiako popularly called ‘Chairman Wontumi’ has accused officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) of...
Fisherfolks Run Riot; Beat Up Environmental Taskforce
FISHERFOLKS in Elmina Bantuma, a suburb of Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) municipality of the Central Region, on the dawn of Friday, February 24, 2017 beat up officials of an...
Giving Life To NDC’s Collapsed NHIS
If you have ever seen how a cocoyam leaf touched by fire looks like, you would understand what I went through on that day, January 3, 2017. It was Tuesday. After I had reported for 3FM’s Midday...
Woman, 34, Appeals For Support To Fund 6 Month Dialysis Bills
A 34-year-old female resident of Amasaman, Doris Agbasi Oleki, is seeking the help of benevolent organisations and the general public to fund her six-month dialysis bills at the Renal Dialysis Unit...
10 Warning Signs That You May Have Fibroids
A fibroid is a benign, non-cancerous growth that occurs in or around the uterus. It is also known as leiomyoma, or simply myoma, in medical terminology. A woman can have a single fibroid or multiple...
First Drug-Resistant Malaria Parasite Detected In Africa
For the first time in Africa, researchers said Wednesday they have detected a malaria parasite that is partially resistant to the top anti-malaria drug, artemisinin, raising concern about efforts to...
Alarming! One-Sixth of Ghanaians Have Diabetes
One-sixth of Ghanaians are diabetic, thus making the disease more alarming than the prevalence rate of HIV/ AIDS in the country. National President of Diabetes Association of Ghana, Mrs. Elizabeth...