Mrs Veronica Asamoah Tortor, the Dormaa West District Director of Health, has expressed worry about alcohol abuse among pregnant women in the District. She said the unhealthy lifestyle of the...
The nationwide intermittent shortages of mental health drugs is retarding the recovery process of patients in the Brong-Ahafo Region, investigation by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) has revealed. The...
The Regent of Dagbon, Kampakuya Naa Andani Yakubu has called for the immediate inclusion of mental illness in the National Health Insurance Scheme to improve access to medications by the mentally...
At a secret location in Australia's southeast, Peter Crock delicately tends to a two-month-old cannabis cutting. Barely knee high, it is one of about 50 government-sanctioned "mother plants" to be...
Dozens of patients who reported at the Pantang Hospital, Accra yesterday were turned away as the staff of the facility embarked on a sit-down strike. Some of the patients were left helpless as...
Dozens of patients who reported at the Pantang Hospital on Monday, July 10, were turned away as the staff of the facility embarked on a sit-down strike. Some of the patients were left helpless as...
The first large-scale clinical trial of a cannabis derivative known as cannabidiol shows it was able to cut the frequency of severe epileptic seizures by 39 percent, researchers said Wednesday....
Being overweight or obese in the first trimester of pregnancy has been linked to a higher risk of bearing a child with epilepsy, researchers said Monday. The study was based on data from 1.4 million...
A protein in spider venom may help protect the brain from injury after a stroke, according to research. Scientists found a single dose of the protein Hi1a worked on lab rats. They said it showed...
Contrary to popular belief, your sex drive doesn’t just go south once you hit the big 4-0. If you’re losing your libido in your 40s, 50s, or even 60s, your medicine cabinet—not age—may be...
A man accused of sending a flashing image to a writer in order to trigger an epileptic seizure has been arrested, the US justice department says. John Rayne Rivello, 29, of Maryland, sent Kurt...
A man accused of sending a flashing image to a writer in order to trigger an epileptic seizure has been arrested, the US justice department says. John Rayne Rivello, 29, of Maryland, sent Kurt...
Mental and epileptic patients in the Northern Region requiring medical care have shunned health facilities due to the absence of psychotropic medicines. Epilepsy, per statistics from the Ghana Health...
IT has been revealed that head injuries can cause epilepsy. This, according to a health professional, is either due to accident that gives trauma to the head or batting. Deputy Director of Nurses...
Specialist assistant at the Psychiatric Department of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr Ruth Owusu- Antwi has stated that between four to ten out of hundred people are epileptic in Ghana....
Specialist assistant at the Psychiatric Department of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr Ruthf Owusu- Antwi has stated that betwee11n four to ten out of hundred people are epileptic in...
New imaging techniques enable exploration of the brain in much more detail than ever before, opening the door to greater understanding of neurological problems and possibly new treatments,...
World Health Organisation (WHO) has said about 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, making it one of the most common neurological diseases globally. According to WHO, epilepsy is a chronic...
The Community Mental Health Officer for the Assin Fosu District in the Central region, Madam Comfort Sarpong is calling for a concerted effort to combat epilepsy in the country as more people are...
On Friday, Donald Trump barred citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries - Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen - from entering the United States for at least the next 90 days. He...
