health
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...
India Accused of Creating
An Indian government initiative to tackle malnutrition by providing millions of school children with free lunch could...
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...
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...
Israel Approves Partial Marijuana Decriminalisation
Israel has approved plans to partially decriminalise marijuana use in public in favour of fines and treatment....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
$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...
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...
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...
We Didn’t Dispense Expired Drugs
Management of the Tamale Teaching Hospital has dismissed media report suggesting that the use of expired anesthetic...
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...
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...
Reverend Deegbe Commends Chiropractic and Wellness Centres
Reverend Dr Frederick Primrose Deegbe, the Former Secretary General of Christian Council, has commended the...
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...
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...