For the first time in Africa, researchers said Wednesday they have detected a malaria parasite that is partially resistant to the top anti-malaria drug, artemisinin, raising concern about efforts to...
One-sixth of Ghanaians are diabetic, thus making the disease more alarming than the prevalence rate of HIV/ AIDS in the country. National President of Diabetes Association of Ghana, Mrs. Elizabeth...
World Health Organisation (WHO) has said about 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, making it one of the most common neurological diseases globally. According to WHO, epilepsy is a chronic...
Departing Ghana Coach Avram Grant says getting a player of Asamoah Gyan’s specie would not come handy. He told this writer exclusively that in the striker lie immeasurable qualities any coach would...
President of the Ghana HIV and AIDS Network (GHANET), Mr Victor Attah Ntumi, has called on government to implement the Ghana AIDS Commission Act, to protect the privileges of persons living with HIV...
As a young man or woman, knowing your genotype should be on your list of priorities before marriage… Falling in love might seem like the easiest thing to do in the life we’re in; but many a times...
Doctors have raised fresh concerns that drug-resistant forms of malaria may be emerging across Africa. A key malaria treatment has failed for the first time in Britain to cure four patients who had...
End Malaria Council, a group of international influential public and private sector leaders has launched a malaria eradication programme at Davos, Switzerland. The Council is co-chaired by Mr Bill...
Today the subject of my pen which Western sympathizers may call it vitriol is the inscrutable TROIKA. I have written before about it and I am still continuing until TRIOKA stop all its ill plans...
Black Stars coach Avram Grant has named a fairly same side for Ghana’s Group D game against Mali. Injured Baba Rahman’s place has been taken by Frank Opoku Acheampong just like in the 1-0 win...
Health delivery is not complete without the prescription of medicines and adherence of patients/clients to the prescribed medicines. In Ghana, most herbal centers/clinics started as manufacturers of...
Professor Ahmed Adu-Oppong, the former Head of Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast (UCC), is now the Director of the Kintampo College of Health and...
With an air of unease hanging over the tournament, the African Cup of Nations soccer competition returns to Gabon for the second time in five years. Opposition parties in the oil-rich central African...
A malaria vaccine that uses a weakened form of the parasite has passed a "critical milestone" in human safety trials, say researchers. Doctors used a genetically modified form of malaria that was...
Community nurses like Emilia Hayford are unsung heroes who bring care directly to women and families in the seaside villages of western Ghana. They are often the only health providers a family in...
Post-natal care attendance is very low at health facilities in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of the Northern Region. The district Disease Control Officer, Thomas Suuri, described as worrying...
A couple of weeks ago, Kervin Kofi Moses, a 15-year old student of Ghana's Achimota School, died at the 37 Military Hospital after falling ill at school. His distraught mother called for the school...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Malaria Report 2016 reveals that children and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa have greater access to effective malaria control. The report indicates...
The 2016 presidential candidate of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Papa Kwesi Nduom insists that his party remains an alternative to Ghana's political establishment despite a poor showing in...
“When I say NDC, you say no abaabasɛ. NDC, no abaabasɛ. Then, the third one, you say ‘hweeeeeeeeoooow’ ,” there was President John Dramani Mahama addressing teeming supporters. Indeed,...
