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Deported Ghanaian Dies of Cancer Just When Help Came In
A Ghanaian woman who was deported from Britain while undergoing treatment for terminal cancer has died in her home...
Korle Bu, Komfo Anokye Hospitals Selected As African Study Sites
The Komfo Anokye and Korle Bu Teaching Hospitals in Ghana are among selected study sites in five African countries...
Ghanaian Deportee Dies of Cancer
A Ghanaian woman who was deported from Britain while undergoing treatment for terminal cancer has died in her home...
Teams Broke Drug Laws In Peddling Painkillers To Players
National Football League teams violated federal laws on prescription drugs in peddling powerful painkillers and...
Quack Doctors Killing Patients With Wrong Diagnosis – NHIA Reveals
There’s an increasingly alarming number of unqualified practitioners involved in irrational patient diagnosis in...
Ignore Poisonous Drugs Publication- FDA
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is calling on the public to ignore media publications suggesting that poisonous...
UER Records 37 Maternal Deaths In 2016
37 maternal deaths were recorded in the Upper East Region in 2016, according to the regional health directorate. The...
Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital In Shambles
play videoSome patients of the Ankaful Mental Health Facility loitering around the compound The Ankaful Psychiatric...
Smoking Paradise Japan Tries To Kick the Habit
Japan is moving to pass its strictest-ever smoking laws, but the country's powerful tobacco lobby wants to stub out...
Unhealthy Eating Is Linked To 400,000 US Deaths Per Year
Unhealthy eating habits can be blamed for more than 400,000 US deaths a year due to heart disease and related...
Calls To Include Mental Health Care In NHIS Intensified
Stakeholders in mental health care are worried about the continuous exemption of mental health care from the National...
Is Yellow Fever the New Zika Virus?
Health experts fear a random outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil could affect millions if it isn't contained. The entire...
We Haven’t Found Formalin In Any Koobi – FDA Allays Fears
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says results from its samples of koobi (salted dried tilapia) tested for formalin so...
We Haven’t Found Formalin In Any ‘koobi’ – FDA Allays Fears
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says results from its samples of koobi (salted dried tilapia) tested for formalin so...
Helping School Girls Cope With Monthly Flow, JInitiative’s Recommendations
One out of every 10 girls in Africa misses days in school during menstrual period, according to UNICEF. In reversing...
Ghana Ranked 6th Fake Drug Producer
The fake drug market, worth over 400 billion euros, is more profitable than the sale of illicit drugs. The World Health...
Zika Virus In Canadian Patients ‘more Severe’ Than Expected
The impact of the Zika virus on infected Canadian travellers was “more severe” than expected, say researchers. A...
Akufo-Addo Must Change Poor State of Mental Healthcare
Dr Akwasi Osei, the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Mental Health Authority (GHA) has expressed worry over the poor...
Ghana Will Be Pharmaceutical Hub of Africa – Agyemang-Manu
The government of Nana Addo Dakwa Akufo-Addo has the vision of turning Ghana into a pharmaceutical manufacturing hub in...