Health workers at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital are praying and hoping that a suspected Ebola patient who they attended to and who died in their arms may well prove negative for the virus.
If he...
Despite the continuous public health education about how to recognize the symptoms of the Ebola Virus Disease, the debilitating effects of virus, mode of transmission, its prevalence, and how to...
Clinical trials of vaccines for the deadly Ebola virus should soon get underway and will likely be ready for widespread use by early next year, the World Health Organisation said Saturday.
"I think...
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has announced an indefinite suspension of reopening of the 2014/2015 academic year of the university.
A statement signed by the Registrar,...
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who form the first medical response team at the epicenters of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa are being infected and dieing from the disease.
The loss...
One of the WHO protocols against the spread and transmission of pathogens includes frequent washing of hands.
With growing anxiety over the spread of the Ebola virus across West Africa and into...
Finally the ‘Let’s Play’ EP of the fantastic afro-fusion artist, Villy is out for your listening pleasure. Just press the play button below to listen to the whole album right here: A little...
The Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Mr. Richard Anamoo, says a Greek Oil vessel, MT Fair Artemis, hijacked by pirates off Ghana’s waters in June this year has...
Nestle Ghana has introduced paternity leave for its male employees to support exclusive breastfeeding for infants within their first 1000 days in life.
“As a recognised leader in Nutrition, Health...
Scientific, the prolific Ghanaian, Liberian rapper is here with a song on Ebola. "Feel My Pain’" is a song which tries to find and unravel the effects of Ebola on West Africa and the World. He...
U.S. health authorities have eased safety restrictions on an experimental drug to treat Ebola, a move that could clear the way for its use in patients infected with the deadly virus.
Canadian...
The fight against deadly Ebola has taken an interesting twist with Senior Pastor of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Nigeria guaranteeing 2,000 bottles of his ‘anointed water’ to fight the...
US President Barack Obama said it is "premature" to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, as Liberia declared a state of emergency amid an outbreak that shows no...
What should happen if a massive viral outbreak appears out of nowhere and the only possible treatment is an untested drug? And who should receive it? The two American missionaries who contracted the...
Amnesty International, Ghana, has called on President John Dramani Mahama to use his current position as the Chairman of ECOWAS to urge President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia to respect and protect the...
US President Obama, today met with over 50 African leaders, discussing issues such as investment, poverty, terrorism, corruption and deadly diseases. Almost 50 African heads of state attended the...
Dubai-based airline, Emirates Airlines, has become the first major international airline to impose a ban in response to the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa by suspending flights to Guinea.
Flights...
Mr Barfuor Amoa, President of the West Africa Network on Small Arms (WAANSA), has appealed to government to ratify the United Nations Convention on Arms and Trade Treaty (ATT), to ensure effective...
West Africa is being plagued by a new outbreak of Ebola — a terrifying disease that causes its victims to bleed to death from the inside out. Ebola has no cure, and the latest epidemic is spreading...
A plant has been found to halt the deadly Ebola virus in its tracks in laboratory tests, scientists have said. They used a compound from Garcinia kola, a plant commonly eaten in West Africa....
