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Indian Girl With Rare Condition Dies Suddenly

An Indian girl who made international headlines when a rare condition caused her head to swell to more than twice the...

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NGO Celebrates Sickle Cell Day

About 15,000 babies are born annually with sickle cell disease in the country. Out of the number, 50 to 80 per cent die...

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Carrie Fisher Autopsy Reveals Cocaine, Ecstasy

Carrie Fisher had a mixture of drugs including cocaine and ecstasy in her system when she suffered a fatal mid-air...

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The Telling Journey of A Sickle Strong Warrior!

I am Yasmine Ponle Okudzeto, a 37 year old Muslimah, an entrepreneur, a mother and a sickle strong warrior. Today, 19th...

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Surgeon Removes 30 Inches Of Man’s Constipated Colon

A team of surgeons in China have beat the odds to remove 30 inches of large intestines from a 22-year old man suffering...

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An Addict Who ‘lived’ On Drugs For 19 Years

“I was at home taking my last straw of drugs when they came and arrested me”, he said, recounting the last bit of...

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Did Unpaid Salaries Kill the Deputy Speaker’s Aide?

“No health issues, phenomenal athlete, came to work every day — just as healthy as can be,” said a colleague at...

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A Tanning Drug For the Pale-Skinned

After 10 years of research, scientists have come up with a drug that could help people tan without exposure to the sun,...

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Cholera Leaves Yemen Hospitals In Constant Code Black

At Yemen's Sabaeen Hospital, code black is an understatement: patients sleep three to a bed, on the bare floor or...

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WHO Adds New Drugs To 2017 Essential Medicines List

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released this year's Essential Medicines List (EML), adding new treatments for...

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Anti-Diabetes Drug Also ‘lessens Kidney, Heart Disease’ Risk

An anti-diabetic drug that lowers blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes sufferers also significantly cuts the risk of...

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Wenchi Hospital Records High Urological Cases

Wenchi Methodist hospital has recorded an increase in cases of prostate related diseases for the past year. Records...

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An Egg A Day Appears To Help Young Children Grow Taller

An egg a day might help undernourished young children grow to a healthy height, according to a six-month study in...

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In Pursuit of A Care-Giver

Eight Month into pregnancy, I felt desperate for help, I needed help to be able to care for my two other children, I...

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In Pursuit of A Care-Giver…

Eight Month into pregnancy, I felt desperate for help, I needed help to be able to care for my two other children, I...

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Diabetic Athlete Gavin Giffiths Encourages Young Ghanaian Patients To Aim High

Type 1 diabetic Gavin Giffiths has charged some Ghanaian children living with the disease not to let it discourage them...

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Syria Sees First Polio Cases In Three Years

Three new cases of polio have been recorded in Syria in the first outbreak of the virus in the country since 2014, the...

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Scorpions the New Threat For Displaced Mosul Civilians

They survived the fighting in their home town but displaced Mosul residents now face the threat from snakes and...

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100,000 Cholera Cases, 789 Deaths, In Yemen In Past Month

A cholera outbreak of more than 100,000 cases has erupted in war-ravaged Yemen, killing nearly 800 people, in just over...