The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has described as shocking the rating of Ghana as the 6th fake drug producer. Speaking in an interview on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm, Mr. James Lartey Public Relations...
A Ghanaian woman who was deported from Britain while undergoing treatment for terminal cancer has died in her home country just hours before friends learned of plans to bring her back to the UK for...
The Komfo Anokye and Korle Bu Teaching Hospitals in Ghana are among selected study sites in five African countries being used for a study into the extent of genetic factors in the cases of renal...
A Ghanaian woman who was deported from Britain while undergoing treatment for terminal cancer has died in her home country just hours before friends learned of plans to bring her back to the UK for...
National Football League teams violated federal laws on prescription drugs in peddling powerful painkillers and anti-inflammatories to players, according to sealed court documents from a federal...
There’s an increasingly alarming number of unqualified practitioners involved in irrational patient diagnosis in various hospitals across the country, Director of Claims at the National Health...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is calling on the public to ignore media publications suggesting that poisonous drugs have hit the market. Some news portals reported that there are poisonous drugs...
37 maternal deaths were recorded in the Upper East Region in 2016, according to the regional health directorate. The region recorded 37 maternal deaths in 2011, 38 deaths in 2012, and 34 in 2013. In...
play videoSome patients of the Ankaful Mental Health Facility loitering around the compound The Ankaful Psychiatric hospital in the Central region owes its drug and food suppliers over 4.5 million...
Japan is moving to pass its strictest-ever smoking laws, but the country's powerful tobacco lobby wants to stub out measures that were adopted years ago by other developed nations. The government is...
Unhealthy eating habits can be blamed for more than 400,000 US deaths a year due to heart disease and related illnesses, researchers said Thursday. The problem is twofold: Americans are eating too...
Stakeholders in mental health care are worried about the continuous exemption of mental health care from the National Health Insurance Scheme. This, according to the Director of BasicNeeds Ghana,...
Health experts fear a random outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil could affect millions if it isn't contained. The entire state of Espirito Santo is now considered at risk for transmission of the...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says results from its samples of koobi (salted dried tilapia) tested for formalin so far have not shown any presence of formalin. Lovers of koobi or salted dried...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says results from its samples of koobi (salted dried tilapia) tested for formalin so far have not shown any presence of formalin. Lovers of koobi or salted dried...
One out of every 10 girls in Africa misses days in school during menstrual period, according to UNICEF. In reversing this trend in Ghana, JInitiative, a child and family focused organization, started...
The fake drug market, worth over 400 billion euros, is more profitable than the sale of illicit drugs. The World Health Organization Report estimated that each year, over 800,000 people, most of them...
The impact of the Zika virus on infected Canadian travellers was “more severe” than expected, say researchers. A new study looked at Canadians returning from trips to Zika-affected regions who...
Dr Akwasi Osei, the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Mental Health Authority (GHA) has expressed worry over the poor attention given to mental health care in the country and called for...
The government of Nana Addo Dakwa Akufo-Addo has the vision of turning Ghana into a pharmaceutical manufacturing hub in Africa by creating the enabling environment for both local and foreign...
