Trump Declares War On Party Rebels
Last week Donald Trump said he was going to “come after” congressman Mark Meadows, the head of the House Freedom Caucus, if he didn’t support the American Health Care Act. White House Press...
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‘One Prescription’ Fits All
By Dr. Kojo Cobba Essel I assumed the above description applied only to certain concoctions being peddled about as miracle potions, until I had a rude awakening. I discovered that something that had...
Vaccine Shortage For Nigeria Meningitis Outbreak
Nigeria is facing a major shortfall in vaccines to contain an outbreak of meningitis that has claimed 282 lives since November last year, senior health officials said on Thursday. The head of the...
Pain and Hurt Part of Life Lessons – Juliet Ibrahim
Sometimes, we need to be hurt in order to grow. We must lose in order to gain. Sometimes, some lessons are learned best through pain. #makeup @sutchay using @shadesbyjulietibrahim lashes and...
Murder In Masquerade
First year university lady from KNUST; Final year university student from UG; 16 years old girlfrom New Tafo in the Eastern region; An unidentified man suspected to be in his 30s at Achimota; A lady...
Bring Back Our Rights To Water
What is the circumference of the planet earth? No need to be specific, but we know it would make a baobab tree look very, very small. With that in mind, consider this, if all the people living in...
B/A Recorded 1,224 Unsafe Abortion Cases In 2016
Brong Ahafo Region recorded 1,224 cases of unsafe abortion among teenagers in 2016, the Ghana Health Service report has revealed. The report said the figure represented 12.7 percent of 9,612 cases of...
Father of Newborn Found Buried Alive In A Field In India Is Arrested
Indian police have arrested a man on suspicion of burying his newborn daughter alive because he wanted a boy, officials said on Wednesday. Local villagers rescued the baby over the weekend after...
Cambodia Bans Export of Human Breast Milk
Some Cambodian mothers have been selling their breast milk to women in the US, in a controversial practice that has now been banned. But the case has raised questions about whether these women have...
B/A Recorded 1,224 Unsafe Abortion Cases In 2016
Brong Ahafo Region recorded 1,224 cases of unsafe abortion among teenagers in 2016, the Ghana Health Service report has revealed. The report said the figure represented 12.7 percent of 9,612 cases of...
Meningitis Outbreak Kills Nearly 270 In Nigeria
Nearly 270 people, most of them children, have died in the past five months during the latest meningitis outbreak to hit Nigeria, public health officials said Wednesday. "Presently we have 1,828...
Why Must Governments Abandon Good Projects?
IT is a fact that many of our public hospitals are unable to operate at their optimum. The reason is primarily due to the lack of adequate facilities and state-of-the-art equipment needed to...
Brong-Ahafo Records 1,224 Unsafe Abortion Cases In 2016
Brong Ahafo Region recorded 1,224 cases of unsafe abortion among teenagers in the 2016, the Ghana Health Service report has revealed. The report said the figure represented 12.7 percent of 9,612...
Parliament Approves GHc4bn For Health Ministry
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has assured aggrieved nurses that they would be posted once the budget estimate of the ministry has received Parliamentary approval. Young nurses, both...
Government To Build Infectious Diseases Hospital At Nsawam
The government is working in collaboration with the Global Fund to build a $1 million modern infectious disease hospital at Nsawam in the Eastern Region. The objective is to contain the threat of a...
Parliament Approves GHc4bn For Health Ministry; Minister Assures Nurses of Posting
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has assured aggrieved nurses that they would be posted once the budget estimate of the ministry has received Parliamentary approval. Young nurses, both...
Kids Exposed To Lead Show Less Intelligence As Adults
Children in New Zealand who were exposed to high levels of lead have grown up to be less intelligent adults than their counterparts who were not as affected, researchers said Tuesday. The...
Meningitis Outbreak Kills At Least 140 In Nigeria
An outbreak of meningitis in several states of Nigeria has killed at least 140 people, officials say. It has been reported over the last week in six states and has so far infected more than 1,000...
Alarm As Measles Spreads Across Europe
Measles is making its way across Europe at an alarming rate, shocking new figures reveal. Cases of the highly contagious infection have tripled in Italy so far this year, while Romania has also...
937 Jobless Nurses Picket At Ghana Health Service
The nurses claim they are losing their skills following the continued stay at home Some 937 unemployed nurses have picketed the Ghana Health Service (GHS) over the government’s failure to post them...