A new cholesterol-slashing drug that has shown promise for high-risk patients does not impair brain function, according to a study out Saturday. Previous research had raised the possibility that...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has resolved to deal with importers and manufacturers who import or manufacture substandard goods for the local market. In an interview in Accra, the Chief...
The Federal Ministry of Health yesterday put the controversy over the status of Fanta and Sprite to rest. The ministry declared both brands safe for consumption. There had been wide spread fears in...
Farmers and women groups engaged in the shea butter and groundnut business in the Upper West Region say they have lost about GH¢5 million in revenue after their produce was downgraded on the...
Ghana’s Tuberculosis (TB) burden is on the upsurge as 14,632 cases were reported in 2016 as against 9,714 in 2015. This means 2016 has seen record jump of 4,918 cases. Out of the 14,632 cases...
The Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) has sent a distress call to the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to reimburse its institutions for services rendered to clients under the...
Researchers said Friday they had found an indigenous Amazonian tribe with the lowest levels of artery hardening -- a portender of heart disease -- ever observed. And while they hailed the group's...
The UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has killed scores of people this year. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
Hibiscus tea popularly called Sobolo is a delicious, healthy drink made from the petals of the Hibiscus flower and is widely appreciated drink in most parts of Africa and the world. Sobolo has gained...
Citi News can confirm that the victim at the centre of the Mawarko saga, Evelyn Boakye, has been admitted at the psychiatric department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. According to a source close...
The Environmental Service Providers Association says spending $700 million to construct new drains and dislodge choked ones is not an effective way to prevent the perennial floods in Accra. While...
The Environmental Service Providers Association says spending $700 million to construct new drains and dislodge choked ones is not an effective way to prevent the perennial floods in Accra. While...
Integrated waste management solution champions, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has announced plans to partner newly created ministry—Inner-City and Zongo Development. The move, according to the waste...
The 2016 District League Table has revealed that not a single community in the entire 16 metropolitan, municipal and districts in the Greater Accra Region has been certified as open-defecation free....
The Central Regional Red Cross Society in collaboration with the Regional Health Directorate and other stakeholders have intensified efforts to prevent a possible cholera outbreak in the Region this...
OVER eight thousand residents at Oyoko Traditional Area in the Sekyere Kumawu District in the Ashanti Region have engaged in open defecation, posing health threat to many lives in the...
Former Director of the Ghana Health Service, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa says until Ghana addresses the problem of malnutrition among children under five (5) years, the country will continue to have...
Graduate nurses numbering over 200 have staged a protest at the Ministry of Health to demand the lifting of the ban on the recruitment of graduate nurses. The aggrieved nurses who were at the...
Sir Mo Farah has said it "breaks his heart" to hear how families are facing starvation in East Africa as he backed a UK charity fundraising appeal. The Olympian said it "hurts to see children without...
The Minister for Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh has revealed that government has secured monies to pay the two year outstanding allowances for teachers. He said government owes teachers about a GHS...
