Diabetic Friendly Smoothies
Living with diabetes is all about managing your blood sugar levels. This is a chronic illness, but you can live well with it if you manage it. A huge part of that management is diet. Several...
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Voiceless Iraqi Coach Inspires Footballers
Kadhim Flayeh taps three fingers on his watch. It's the sign for kick-off: one of Iraq's top football coaches has lost his voice. Cancer forced the 57-year-old to have his larynx removed last year,...
Forum Decries Proliferation of Quacks In Health Facilities
Stakeholders in the health sector have expressed worry about the proliferation of unqualified health personnel in health facilities, saying the situation is a major setback to the quality of...
First Lady Accepts To Be Cancer Ambassador
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has accepted the role of Cancer Ambassador from Cancer Voices Ghana, a registered charity raising awareness of cancers in the country. Cancer Voices Ghana paid...
A US State Speeds Up Executions, Scheduling Eight In 10 Days
The US state of Arkansas is racing to execute eight death row inmates in 10 days next month to beat the expiration date on a hard-to-get drug used in lethal injections. Death penalty opponents have...
Quack Doctors Killing Patients With Wrong Diagnosis – NHIA Reveals
There’s an increasingly alarming number of unqualified practitioners involved in irrational patient diagnosis in various hospitals across the country, Director of Claims at the National Health...
UER Records 37 Maternal Deaths In 2016
37 maternal deaths were recorded in the Upper East Region in 2016, according to the regional health directorate. The region recorded 37 maternal deaths in 2011, 38 deaths in 2012, and 34 in 2013. In...
Here Is What Your Farts Reveal About Your Health
Flatulence is the stuff of comedy for people young and old, and it’s not something often discussed in polite company. However, it is something that we all do once in a while. In fact, your farts...
Tamale Teaching Hospital Anaesthetists Hot Over Expired Drug Claims
The management of the Tamale Teaching Hospital and the Food and Drugs Authority have mounted pressure on anesthetists at the facility to reveal the source of expired anaesthesia drugs that got their...
Legon Suicide Victim Suffered ‘psychological Problem’
Police say they have discovered prescription medication in the room of the 23-year-old University of Ghana student who fell to her death on Wednesday. Doctors are yet to confirm what the drugs are...
Can Sweat Patches Revolutionise Diabetes?
Scientists have developed a sensor that can monitor blood sugar levels by analysing sweaty skin. But rather than a gym-soaked t-shirt, it needs just one millionth of a litre of sweat to do the...
Vaccine Created To Protect Ebola-Ravaged Chimps
Scientists announced Thursday that they have developed a vaccine to shield endangered chimpanzees and gorillas against Ebola, which has wiped out tens of thousands of the wild apes in three decades....
Is Yellow Fever the New Zika Virus?
Health experts fear a random outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil could affect millions if it isn't contained. The entire state of Espirito Santo is now considered at risk for transmission of the...
Seven Babies Die At Tamale Teaching Hospital
At least seven people have died and the death toll is still rising at the Tamale Teaching Hospital following management’s decision to abandon a faulty oxygen producing machine, which serves as a...
Police Hospital Dialysis Centre Makes Gains Through Exciting PPP
World Kidney Day falls on 9th March 2017, and as the years go by we are faced with an alarming increase in chronic kidney disease. Across the globe, 10 percent of the population is affected by...
‘World’s Heaviest Woman’ Has Surgery In India, Loses 100 Kgs
Indian doctors said Thursday that an Egyptian who was believed to be the world's heaviest woman had successfully undergone weight-loss surgery after losing over 100 kilograms (220 pounds). Eman Ahmed...
Oxygen Shortage: Seven Babies Die At TTH
At least seven people have died and the death toll is still rising at the Tamale Teaching Hospital following management’s decision to abandon a faulty oxygen producing machine, which serves as a...
Oxgyen Shortage Kills More Than 7 Patients At Tamale Teaching Hospital
More than seven (7) people have died and the death toll is still rising at the Tamale Teaching Hospital after a chaotic and disastrous management decision to abandon a faulty oxygen producing machine...
Ghanaians To Pay High Tariff Under ECG Concession
The General Secretary of the Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU), Michael Adumatta Nyantakyi, has admonished government to desist from interfering in the affairs of the Electricity Company of Ghana...
Zika Virus In Canadian Patients ‘more Severe’ Than Expected
The impact of the Zika virus on infected Canadian travellers was “more severe” than expected, say researchers. A new study looked at Canadians returning from trips to Zika-affected regions who...