NPP Activist Poisoned At Ayensuano
One of the main opponents to the DCE nominee of Ayensuano in the Eastern region has allegedly died of food poisoning, family sources have told Starr News. The deceased, Emmanuel Koranteng, popularly...
Tag: Medicine
Ghana Health Service Issues Cholera Alert
The Ghana Health Services (GHS) has reminded all Regional Directors of Health Services across the country of the likelihood of cholera outbreaks as the rains set in in May and June. The GHS, in a...
Ghana Registers Remarkable Reduction In Malaria Cases
Mr Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey, the Behavioural Change Communication Specialist of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has observed that there is a remarkable reduction in malaria cases in terms of prevalence...
Smartphone ‘orders’ Body To Treat Diabetes
Scientists have used a smartphone to control the activity of the living cells inside an animal. The fusion of biology and technology was used to control blood sugar levels in mice with diabetes. The...
US To Run Out of Yellow Fever Vaccine Later This Year
The United States will run out of vaccine for yellow fever by mid-2017, and travelers may find it hard to get vaccinated until next year, US health officials said Friday. The French pharmaceutical...
Liberia Tests Mystery Illness After 11 Unexplained Deaths
Liberia said Friday that samples from people struck down by a mystery illness are being tested abroad after 11 unexplained deaths, though Ebola has been ruled out. The unidentified illness has...
Juliet Ibrahim Reveals the Most Risky Place She Had Sex
Pretty Ghanaian actress, Juliet Ibrahim has disclosed the most risky place she has had sex. The actress revealed in an interview with Trybes TV that the riskiest place she has had sex is at the...
Cheap Drug Tackles Death In Childbirth
Severe bleeding after childbirth is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide A cheap drug has been shown to stop women bleeding to death, in a discovery that should change practice around the...
Your Mother’s Diet May Influence Your Liver’s Health
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a serious and growing problem. Previously linked with obesity, a new study also connects it to maternal obesity – meaning that what your mother ate during...
Concussion Ends All Black Broadhurst’s Career
One-Test All Black James Broadhurst announced his retirement from rugby on Friday, saying he had been unable to shake off the impacts of concussion. The 29-year-old has not played since suffering two...
Arkansas Set To Carry Out Final Execution Before Drug Expires
Arkansas was set to execute another inmate on Thursday, the last in a series of lethal injections that the state has squeezed into a compressed timeline, even as the daughter of one of his victims...
Ghana AIDS Commission Gets New Board
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inaugurated the re-constituted 19-member governing board of the Ghana AIDS Commission, with a charge on the members to use their resourcefulness to mobilise...
Liberia Tests Mystery Disease Swabs
Health ministry spokesperson Sorbor George said that efforts to resuscitate those who died unfortunately failed, the BBC’s Jonathan Paye-Layleh reports. Mr George added that five others, showing...
Asokore-Mampong Records Low Immunization Coverage
The Asokore-Mampong Municipality has been recording poor immunization coverage – ranked the lowest nationwide. In year 2014, it achieved 26 percent coverage, rising to 64.3 percent the following...
Ebola Ruled Out In Liberia As Cause of Mystery Deaths
The nine deaths happened in a short space of time in Sinoe county. The Liberian authorities have ruled out Ebola as the cause of the deaths of nine people from a mystery illness in the south-east of...
Fear Grips Liberians As Mystery Disease Claims 9 Lives
A mysterious disease has killed nine people in Liberia, leading the health authorities to issue guidelines to citizens on what to do as they investigate the illness. The BBC reports that the Chief...
India Gets Its First Free Condom Store To Help Bypass Social Taboos
A global charity Wednesday launched a free condom store in India to try to reduce new cases of HIV/AIDS in a country with the world's third highest number. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) said...
Police Nab Illegal ECG Meter Dealer In Ashanti Region
The accused in the grips of police for engaging in the distribution of strange meters to customers Officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana in the Ashanti Region have arrested a lotto agent at...
Hepatitis E Outbreak Kills 25 In Niger Refugee Camp
Bad water and hygiene have led to an epidemic of hepatitis E that has killed 25 people over several months in a refugee camp in Diffa, a region in southeast Niger, Medecins sans frontieres said...
We’ll Post Aggrieved Nurses Soon – Tina Mensah
The deputy Minister of Health Tina Mensah has assured that process are far advanced to get the aggrieved bonded nurses picketing at the health Ministry posted. Nonetheless, she said they would have...