Bliss Eye Care, a private eye clinic has organised a free eye screening service for over 2,000 basic school pupils in the Wa Municipality. The exercise held last Saturday formed part of the...
The Upper West Regional Directorate of Health Services has intensified its screening efforts at identifying persons with Tuberculosis, taking on-board screening of miners in Nadowli District and at...
Ms Rosina Adorbor, the Kpone Katamanso District Director of Education, has advised pupils to shun negative peer influences that would lure them into engaging in casual sex. She urged adolescents to...
A Non Governmental Organization, Savana Signatures (Save Sign) has widened its scope to fight maternal and infant mortality by supporting 33 health facilities in the three northern and Volta regions...
Two students have been confirmed dead with eleven others on admission at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital from cerebrospinal meningitis in the Upper East region. Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) is an...
Adolescent suicide is real. Reported cases in the media in the first two months and three weeks of the year, stand at eight. However, many more cases go unreported. According to studies by the...
Eleven others who have also been infected with CSM are in hospital for treatment At least two Senior High School students have been confirmed dead after they were infected with Cerebrospinal...
The wail sliced through the stuffy underground medical centre in a besieged town near the Syrian capital. Dania, 14, was writhing in pain ahead of her first ever dialysis session. She was one of...
The Northern Region has been adjudged the best performing region in the country in neonatal health care in 2016 by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Under the GHS National League Table, the region...
With just six months of training, a pair of German Shepherds became 100-percent accurate in their new role as breast cancer spotters, the team said. The technique is simple, non-invasive and cheap,...
Statistics from the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate show that tuberculosis (TB) infection is on the decline in the region. A total of 2,241 cases, were reported last year, compared with the year...
The World Health Organization said Friday 116 million children are to receive polio vaccines in 13 countries in west and central Africa as part of efforts to eradicate the disease on the continent....
This picture shows the building of the Food and Drugs Authority The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) wishes to bring to the attention of the general public that information circulating on social media...
British scientists have made a world-first breakthrough in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Researchers in Oxford and Birmingham say they can isolate different strains of the disease using a process...
A baby boy has been inundated with visitors who believe he is a reincarnation of a Hindu god – despite being rejected by his mother. Mum-of-four Khalida Begum gave birth to the as yet unnamed...
Producers and Practitioners of Alternative Medicines in Ghana are advocating to government to consider setting up a council to regulate activities of members as in other fields. The Director of C4C...
All the 161 ambulances operated by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) are over aged. The development has compelled officials of the service to raise concerns about their continuous use on the...
What causes cancer? A new study published Thursday suggests that cells make random mistakes while dividing, accounting for most of the mutations in tumors, rather than family history or environmental...
Ghana’s love for philanthropy is embedded in the core conscience of its populace and the entertainment industry and its stakeholders have never been left out. GRAFT Foundation this year will be...
A new vaccine that is cheap to make and does not require refrigeration has shown promise in preventing rotavirus, a contagious and fatal disease that disproportionately strikes children in Africa,...
