NPP Will Solve Health Problems Around Pillars
A government of the New Patriotic Party, under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, would resolve the nation’s health challenges based on seven principles. The principles hinge on ensuring and...
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Watch Where You Buy Them
Medicines - Watch where you buy them Medicine has two basic meanings, it first refers to the Science of Healing; the practice of the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease, and the promotion...
Psychiatrist Warns Politicians of Mental Attack On Election Day
Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has cautioned actors in this year’s general elections, especially the candidates, to restrain their emotional outburst to...
Psychiatrist Warns Politicians of Mental Attack On Election Day If…
Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has cautioned actors in this year’s general elections, especially the candidates, to restrain their emotional outburst to...
How This Woman Is Helping To Bring Health Care Awareness To Ghana
Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo is a woman on a profound mission. Through her organization African Health Now, the 39-year-old has been crusading for the last 10 years to help bring basic health information,...
Psychiatric Nurses Begin ‘Run From Danger’ Strike
Nurses at the country’s foremost psychiatric hospital, Accra Psychiatric Hospital, have begun a sit-down strike dubbed ‘Run from Danger’. According to the nurses, the action is to draw...
USAID Empowers Agribusinesses To Collaborate
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ghana Grains Council held the 6th annual Pre-harvest Agribusiness Forum in Sunyani on Thursday, October 20. The event brought...
The Panacea For Cheap Drugs
Before now, there have been suggestions that local industries should be supported in order to produce guaranteed pharmaceutical products for local utilisation, because no nation progresses by...
AIDS Kills 11,000 In 2015
Ghana has recorded a total of about 11,000 HIV AIDS deaths with 12,635 new HIV infections in 2015, the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has stated. According to the Commission, there are 274,562 persons...
Facebook Accused of Removing Breast Cancer Awareness Video
Facebook has removed a video on breast cancer awareness posted in Sweden after it considered the images "offensive", a group says. Cancerfonden's video featured animated women with their breasts...
Julius Debrah Must Apologise Over ‘Kalyppo Claim’ – Group
A group calling itself, Concerned Ghanaians for Local Products, has asked the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, to “retract, apologise” or prove his scientific claim for saying that Kalyppo fruit...
Discrimination Against Persons Living With HIV To Attract Jail Term
Those who act in ways deemed to be discriminatory against persons living with HIV/AIDS could serve up to three years in jail, a new Ghana AIDS Commission law passed by Parliament prescribes. The...
Is It Worth It Restoring Allowance And Yet Nurses Are Unemployed For Over Five Years?
“All the decisions I have made in my life were regularly plaqued with doubt. It can be challenging to sustain that feeling of hope or the belief that things will turn out for the best. Again and...
COA Clears Air On AIDS Drugs
The Centre of Awareness Ghana (COA) has cleared the air that its newly developed COA 72 is an unfinished HIV/AIDS medication still being researched into and not a finished product as misreported by a...
1.3 Million Kenyans In 23 Counties Are In Need of Food Aid
1.3 million Kenyans in 23 counties are in need of food aid - Report Despite the progress Kenya has made in reducing hunger, it is among 50 countries where levels of hunger remain serious or alarming,...
Confusion Between Potential HIV Cure and Immune System Support Drug Clarified
The Company undertaking clinical trials on a potential HIV cure says the drug is being confused with the Food and Drugs Authority, FDA-approved immune system support drug, COA FS, also produced by...
Toni Braxton Postpones Her Concert After Being Hospitalized
The announcement comes shortly after Toni performed in Kansas City on Friday evening Toni Braxton is putting a short pause on her performance schedule after experiencing some health complications. As...
Icelandic Lawmaker Breastfeeds Her Baby While Addressing Parliament
When Icelandic Member of Parliament Unnur Brá Konráðsdóttir was unexpectedly called upon to defend a bill in the middle of breastfeeding her infant daughter, the politician confidently strode up...
Coastal Residents Turning Beaches Into Dumping Sites
Beaches along coastal areas in Accra and other parts of the country have been engulfed in filth due to poor sanitary practices of indigenes. Residents of coastal areas like Chorkor, James Town,...
Institute Retail Price For Eggs
A former Director General of the Ghana Health Services (GHS), Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, has called on poultry farmers to institute a recommended retail price for eggs to make it affordable to...