Statistics from the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate show that tuberculosis (TB) infection is on the decline in the region. A total of 2,241 cases, were reported last year, compared with the year...
British scientists have made a world-first breakthrough in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Researchers in Oxford and Birmingham say they can isolate different strains of the disease using a process...
A clinical psychologist Dr. Samuel Atindanbila has called for the country’s law on suicide to be reviewed to help reduce the menace of the sordid act. According to him persons attempted taking...
Now that Ghana has two Veterinary Medical Schools to train Veterinary Surgeons, one may perhaps have hopes that this will herald the new era of solving the problem of inadequate veterinary surgeons....
Africa can be proud of many remarkable achievements in recent decades. Giving 427 million more people access to improved drinking water since 1990 – an average of 47,000 people every day across...
Actor Joseph Osei, popularly known as Wayoosi, has sternly cautioned Ghanaians, especially men, to refrain from consuming too much alcoholic liquor if they want to stay healthy and live longer. He...
A former guerrilla fighter has won East Timor's presidential election in just one round, an early count indicated Tuesday, in a sign of growing stability for Asia's youngest nation. With most ballots...
Today marks one year memorial of the late former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey. The incumbent party will today remember the late gem whose lifetime was of...
An ongoing crackdown against opposition politicians and activists in Cambodia has cast a "dark shadow" ahead of upcoming elections and is part of a wider authoritarian "disease" infecting the region,...
Two former NFL all-stars, Gale Sayers and Dwight Clark, have reportedly been diagnosed with neurological conditions and at least one family is wondering if football contributed to their loved one's...
East Timor voted for a new president Monday, with a former guerrilla fighter tipped for victory after winning the backing of the two biggest parties, in a new sign of stability for Asia's youngest...
The Saudi king has cancelled a scheduled visit to the politically-troubled atoll nation of the Maldives because of an outbreak of swine flu in its capital, the government in Male announced Friday....
The Ashanti Region has been recording an alarming rate of glaucoma cases with over 600 per cent rise between 2014 and 2016. One of the communities most affected is Beposo in the Sekyere Central...
Senegal continues with it’s campaign towards eradication of Malaria. The country received some 32 million USD from the Lives and Livelihood Development Fund, to completely eradicate the disease by...
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...
Tens of thousands of people who fled Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria are facing a severe lack of water, compounding widespread food shortages and security fears, aid workers said on Monday. For the...
Depression, also known as clinical depression and major depressive disorder (MDD), is one of the least understood disorders of our time. People have a tendency to disregard what they can’t...
Living with diabetes is all about managing your blood sugar levels. This is a chronic illness, but you can live well with it if you manage it. A huge part of that management is diet. Several...
Stakeholders in the health sector have expressed worry about the proliferation of unqualified health personnel in health facilities, saying the situation is a major setback to the quality of...
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has accepted the role of Cancer Ambassador from Cancer Voices Ghana, a registered charity raising awareness of cancers in the country. Cancer Voices Ghana paid...
