Not Enough Evidence To Support Pelvic Exams
A US medical task force said Tuesday that there is not enough evidence to support regular pelvic examinations in women who have no symptoms and are not pregnant, raising questions about the...
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Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Activist Takes On Parliament
Since he accused Sierra Leone's parliament of diverting public funds from some of the world's poorest people, including Ebola crisis victims, Abdul Fatoma's life has taken a dark turn. Fatoma has...
India Accused of Creating
An Indian government initiative to tackle malnutrition by providing millions of school children with free lunch could be jeopardised if students are forced to obtain an identity card to get their...
Lack of Mental, Epileptic Drugs Hit Health Facilities; No Supply For Over A Yr
Mental and epileptic patients in the Northern Region requiring medical care have shunned health facilities due to the absence of psychotropic medicines. Epilepsy, per statistics from the Ghana Health...
Swift Childhood Cancer Deaths More Common Than Thought
Childhood cancer often strikes its youngest victims the hardest, and the death rate for infants may be up to four times higher than previously thought, US researchers said Monday. The study in the...
Israel Approves Partial Marijuana Decriminalisation
Israel has approved plans to partially decriminalise marijuana use in public in favour of fines and treatment. First-time users who confess will be fined 1,000 shekels (£220) while being caught in...
Upper East, Volta Record Highest Teenage Pregnancies In 2016
The Upper East Region recorded a total of 5,587 adolescent pregnancies representing 15.4% for the year 2016, with 2.1%occurring among adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 years, making the...
George Andah Calls For Community Engagement In Sanitation Day
The Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya West, George Nenyi Andah, joined members of his constituency to observe the National Sanitation Day with a clean-up exercise. Mr. Andah, alongside some New...
Prostitutes ‘fight’ Akufo-Addo Over 2017 Budget
Some commercial sex workers claim the budget did not address problems in their business(file photo) Some commercial sex workers are at the government’s throat claiming the 2017 budget read by the...
After Surviving Ebola, Liberian Icon Dies Giving Birth
In November 2014, Salome Karwah of Liberia graced the cover of Time magazine as a symbol of strength and humanity after surviving Ebola and using her experience to help others with the virus. But...
We Don’t Administer Expired Anesthetic Medication – Tamale Teaching Hospital
The management of the Tamale Teaching Hospital has dismissed reports suggesting that the facility is using expired anesthesia drugs causing the death of innocent patients at the hospital. There were...
$15m Fecal Treatment Plant Starts Full Operation After May
A $15 million project that was launched last year to stop the dumping of raw fecal waste into the sea is set to complete its test run afterMay this year. The Lavender Hill Feacal Treatment Plant,...
Over 700 Women Survive Breast Cancer – Breast Care International
The President of Breast Care International, (BCI), Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai, has disclosed that over seven hundred women who were diagnosed of breast cancer, survived the disease following early...
NHIA Meets Stakeholders To Review Prices of Listed Medicines For 2017
A two-day forum to review the prices of medicines on the NHIS Medicines List has ended in Accra. The annually convened stakeholder forum reviews and adjusts prices of medicines the NHIA pays to its...
We Didn’t Dispense Expired Drugs
Management of the Tamale Teaching Hospital has dismissed media report suggesting that the use of expired anesthetic drugs and oxygen shortage caused the death of three patients on admission. The...
Birth Defects Jump Twentyfold In Zika-Hit Mothers
Pregnant women infected with the Zika virus last year were 20 times more likely to bear children with birth defects than those who gave birth prior to the epidemic, US health officials said Thursday....
To Eat “Koobi” Or Not To Eat
There is nothing as suicidal as being told that a meal or a particular food one has enjoyed for years has been laden with poison. What do you do when faced with a problem of the sort? End it all...
Reverend Deegbe Commends Chiropractic and Wellness Centres
Reverend Dr Frederick Primrose Deegbe, the Former Secretary General of Christian Council, has commended the Chiropractic and Wellness Centres (CWC), a multi-faceted alternative health hub in Accra...
One Dead At Tamale Teaching Hospital Over Expired Anesthesia Drug
A male adult has died with two others in an unknown condition at the Tamale Teaching Hospital following oxygen shortage and also refusal of surgeons to administer an expired anesthesia drug on a...
A Woman Survives Ebola But Not Pregnancy In Africa
Salome Karwah fought past civil war and a deadly virus. But in Liberia, becoming a mother is too often a killer. By the time she was 26, Salome Karwah had defied death at least three times. She had...