An Indian girl who made international headlines when a rare condition caused her head to swell to more than twice the...
About 15,000 babies are born annually with sickle cell disease in the country. Out of the number, 50 to 80 per cent die...
Carrie Fisher had a mixture of drugs including cocaine and ecstasy in her system when she suffered a fatal mid-air...
I am Yasmine Ponle Okudzeto, a 37 year old Muslimah, an entrepreneur, a mother and a sickle strong warrior. Today, 19th...
A team of surgeons in China have beat the odds to remove 30 inches of large intestines from a 22-year old man suffering...
“I was at home taking my last straw of drugs when they came and arrested me”, he said, recounting the last bit of...
“No health issues, phenomenal athlete, came to work every day — just as healthy as can be,” said a colleague at...
After 10 years of research, scientists have come up with a drug that could help people tan without exposure to the sun,...
At Yemen's Sabaeen Hospital, code black is an understatement: patients sleep three to a bed, on the bare floor or...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released this year's Essential Medicines List (EML), adding new treatments for...
An anti-diabetic drug that lowers blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes sufferers also significantly cuts the risk of...
Wenchi Methodist hospital has recorded an increase in cases of prostate related diseases for the past year. Records...
An egg a day might help undernourished young children grow to a healthy height, according to a six-month study in...
Eight Month into pregnancy, I felt desperate for help, I needed help to be able to care for my two other children, I...
Eight Month into pregnancy, I felt desperate for help, I needed help to be able to care for my two other children, I...
Type 1 diabetic Gavin Giffiths has charged some Ghanaian children living with the disease not to let it discourage them...
Three new cases of polio have been recorded in Syria in the first outbreak of the virus in the country since 2014, the...
They survived the fighting in their home town but displaced Mosul residents now face the threat from snakes and...
A cholera outbreak of more than 100,000 cases has erupted in war-ravaged Yemen, killing nearly 800 people, in just over...