Five percent of women in the US territories who were infected with the Zika virus while pregnant had fetus or babies with defects, including microcephaly, government health data said Thursday. The...
The Health sector Non State Actors have pledged to ensure accountability and improvement in the health sector to enhance standards of living. The Non State Actors is a group of Civil Society and...
Cholera, which has hit war-ravaged Yemen with 100,000 suspected cases and 789 deaths, is a highly contagious waterborne bacterial disease which can kill in a matter of hours. Caused by poor...
A two-day symposium to deliberate on ways to translate health research into influential policies and programme decisions has been organised by stakeholders in the health research sector. The...
A Gynaecologist at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) Dr Kwadwo Sarbin has advised women to report chronic blood flowing from their cervix to their doctors to prevent the untoward. According...
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has been issued a month ultimatum to scrap the capitation under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Francis Dodovi, a former Spokesperson for the...
The biggest private waste management company in the country, Zoomlion, has stated that it will work with critical state agencies assiduously to help make Accra the cleanest city in Africa as...
The biggest private waste management company in the country, Zoomlion, has stated that it will work with critical state agencies assiduously to help make Accra the cleanest city in Africa as...
The Eastern Regional Coordinating Council (ERCC) and the Regional AIDS Committee have ordered the Centre for Awareness (COA), a food supplement marketing firm to stop all adverts on a cure for...
Lack of financial and logistical support for PLHIV are some challenges that needs to be resolved Stigmatisation and discrimination against Persons Living with HIV (PLHIV) remain the major challenge...
The Host of Abusua Mmre Ekow Mankatah popularly called ‘Mr Katah’ has entreated the youth to stick to condoms when engaging in sexual bouts saying condoms are way cheaper than diapers. This, he...
A woman from Atlanta has sparked outrage on social media after publicly announcing that she quit her job to breastfeed her 36-year-old bodybuilder boyfriend. Speaking to The Sun, Jennifer Mulford...
South Korea has imposed a temporary nationwide ban on poultry transportation as it struggles to contain a fresh outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N6 virus, which has led to the slaughter of some...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) would commence a food safety enforcement exercise and food vendors who do not comply with the laws and standards of food safety will be imprisoned or fined. Ms....
Various stakeholders on Monday 5th June 2017, observed this year’s World Environment Day at Winneba in the Effutu Municipal Assembly of the Central Region, under the theme ‘Connecting People to...
An experimental cancer medicine called larotrectinib has shown promise treating a diverse range of cancers in people young and old, researchers said at a major cancer conference in the United States....
The Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency, Emmanuel Agyarko, is of the view that the persons who lynched the late military officer, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, might have...
Becoming pregnant after a diagnosis of breast cancer does not raise the risk of the cancer returning, said the largest study of its kind to date, released Saturday at a major cancer conference. The...
Becoming pregnant after a diagnosis of breast cancer does not raise the risk of the cancer returning, said the largest study of its kind to date, released Saturday at a major cancer conference. The...
A new targeted treatment for ovarian cancer has shown “very promising” results in women in the advanced stages of the disease. It shrunk tumours in around half of women who took part in a small...