Haiti was cholera-free until it was brought to the country by Nepalese peacekeepers in 2010 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has for the first time apologised to the people of Haiti for the...
Dr Ebenezer Badoe, a Neuro Paediatrician at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, says medical students will have communication training as part of their curriculum. “Those already in practice will also...
For over 10 years now Eritrea, a small country in East Africa, has been winning the Malaria War without vaccines, though much work remains to be done. Since 2005 I have been monitoring the reduction...
Today, I wish to dedicate my page to young and beautiful Verma Marie Annan, a twenty-three year old woman and graduate of University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, who packed bag and baggage and left to...
Dr Ebenezer Badoe, a Neuro-Peadiatrician at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital has reiterated the need to implement a multidisciplinary working method in managing cerebral palsy patients. He explained...
Close to one thousand teachers and members of the Methodist church drawn from Bibiani and Awaso in the Western Region have benefitted from two separately organized free breast screening programs...
The world's first malaria vaccine immunisation campaign is to commence in 2018 and funds for the phase one of the pilot deployment of the vaccine in Sub-Saharan Africa had been secured. A release by...
A Lecturer at University of Ghana, Dr Florence Naab has called on government to devise a policy that will make it mandatory for pregnant women to be screened for hepatitis. According to Dr. Naab,...
A public health specialist, Mr. Charles Ampong Adjei has revealed that women who test positive for hepatitis B infection suffer psychological and social afflictions including depression, anxiety, and...
More than 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) or cutting. The practice has now been outlawed in some African countries, but not in Sierra Leone,...
The Agona Swedru Municipal Hospital in the Central Region on Thursday observed the world prematurity day to raise awareness of pre-term birth and the concerns of pre-term babies and their families....
Couples always struggle with this question in their minds, how long should we wait after giving birth to have sex? There are many opinions on this issue both from experts, doctors, and individuals...
Ghana has been recording about 128,000 premature births every year, and doctors are advocating cost effective care to save them from dying. Dr. Rita Fosu-Yeboah, a Paediatrician, said 75 per cent of...
Breast Care international, Ghana (BCI) with support from US based Direct Relief has donated lifesaving drugs worth $30 million to some 26 health institutions across the country. The institutions took...
Breast Care international, Ghana (BCI) with support from US based Direct Relief has donated lifesaving drugs to some 26 health institutions across the country. The institutions took stock of the...
Masturbation may be good for you – or bad, depending on your age. The solitary sexual activity that is widely practised but little discussed, is linked with an increased risk of prostate cancer...
Morocco eliminates trachoma – the leading infectious cause of blindness Transmitted through contact with eye and nose discharge of infected people, particularly young children, it affects...
Telecommunications operator Airtel has presented a cheque of GHc 4,600 to Breast Care International, (BCI) to support the NGOs awareness creation program on breast cancer. At a brief presentation...
A 33-year-old tiler has been arrested by the Mile 7 District police for allegedly having in his possession 78 wraps of some powdered substance suspected to be heroin. The suspect, Benjamin Appiah,...
A sickle cell disease patient, Robert Nyan Jr., who was suffering from a contracted hip condition, has expressed gratitude to Vodafone Ghana for funding his hip replacement surgery. The surgery has...
