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...
A protein in spider venom may help protect the brain from injury after a stroke, according to research. Scientists found a single dose of the protein Hi1a worked on lab rats. They said it showed...
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...
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,...
Prof. Stephane Gentil, a Plastic Surgeon from France, on Tuesday donated two incubators and a radiant warmer valued at 55,000 dollars to the 37 Military Hospital Maternity Ward to help take care of...
Africa can be proud of many remarkable achievements in recent decades. Giving 427 million more people access to improved drinking water since 1990 – an average of 47,000 people every day across...
The Lower Manya Krobo Constituency Chairman for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. David Walter Hormenu, has launched a campaign against infant malaria deaths in the constituency....
People who received regular lifestyle counseling online were able to lower their blood pressure as much as a medication would, researchers said Saturday. Their study involved 264 people with high...
Researchers said Friday they had found an indigenous Amazonian tribe with the lowest levels of artery hardening -- a portender of heart disease -- ever observed. And while they hailed the group's...
It was one Saturday afternoon, as I was relaxing on my bed and decided to follow some discussions on a High School Group chat on my phone. I got so engrossed in the discussion on the recent suicide...
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal from one of eight inmates facing execution next month, as the state rushes to move forward before the expiration date of one of the drugs...
The Ashanti Region has been recording an alarming rate of glaucoma cases with over 600 per cent rise between 2014 and 2016. One of the communities most affected is Beposo in the Sekyere Central...
The Central Regional Red Cross Society in collaboration with the Regional Health Directorate and other stakeholders have intensified efforts to prevent a possible cholera outbreak in the Region this...
Former Director of the Ghana Health Service, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa says until Ghana addresses the problem of malnutrition among children under five (5) years, the country will continue to have...
Common painkillers taken by millions of Britons can raise the risk of a heart attack by up to 50 percent, researchers have found. And one, diclofenac, is so dangerous it should not be taken at all,...
A medical doctor at the Urology Department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KTH), Dr. Bray Lemuel, has asked women whose husbands are suffering from prostate enlargement, cancer and its health...
A Texas lawmaker has proposed a bill that would fine a man $100 each time he masturbates. The bill also imposes a 24-hour waiting period if a guy wants a colonoscopy or a vasectomy, or if he's in the...
Depression, also known as clinical depression and major depressive disorder (MDD), is one of the least understood disorders of our time. People have a tendency to disregard what they can’t...
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...
