Health

There are those who work when they want and how they wish. They have no regular schedules and are not limited to certain timelines...

Controversial relationship expert, George Lutterodt has said that many teenagers can prevent unwanted pregnancy if given a condom. Speaking to Gifty Andoh Appiah on The...

As part of efforts to making healthcare accessible to all, especially childless couples, a team of Ghanaian medical doctors from South Africa have put...

Deputy Minister of Gender Children and Social Protection, Mrs Gifty Twum Ampofo, has announced government’s move to enroll households with cerebral palsy on the...

Ghana ranks lowest in sanitation levels among all lower middle-income countries, although richer than a lot. That's according to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency...

Only 36 per cent of pregnant women in the Northern Region patronise health facilities for delivery, Ms Georgina Amidu, Communications for Development Officer at...

The 2016 Immunization Data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that Ghana has reached the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) target of...

Two of possibly the greatest joys in life are food and sex. You can enjoy both separately or together, by yourself or with a...

A 30-year-old pregnant midwife, who also works at the Atebubu district government hospital in the Brong Ahafo region has been found dead. According to reports,...

Stressful events in life, such as the death of a child, divorce or being fired, can age the brain by at least four years,...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Chocho Industries Limited, Alhaji Dr Mustapha Oti Boateng, has paved and handed over a 231 metre-length road...

The Minister of Health Honorable Kweku Agyemang Manu has revealed plans by government to support private health institutions in the country. This, according to him...

A new study shows that bathing too often is actually really bad for your skin.If you take daily showers, you may be doing more...

The Ministry of Health has been burdened with GHC 130 debt, a situation that has gotten stakeholders fearing it will impede the delivery of...

Fatigue is common and should be expected during pregnancy, especially in the first and third trimesters.  Causes range from increased body metabolism to support...

The church has been asked to give strong support to the promotion of sexual health education. Ms. Golda Asante, Eastern Regional Technical Coordinator of the...

Tuberculosis activists (TB) have come up with cost effective ways of reducing stigma on TB-HIV at the just ended 20th Conference of the Union...

Two incubators, five patient monitors and two portable ultrasound machines have been donated to support the Save A Child Save A Mother campaign spearheaded...

Ghana aims to end Tuberculosis (TB) and it related lung diseases by 2030, with the introduction of a new sophisticated diagnostic technology known as...

Striking workers at the Pantang Psychiatric hospital have resolved to return to work following the intervention of the Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu. The minister...

Are you addicted to coffee? Then you may have a reason to celebrate. A long-term international study suggests that enjoying a cup of coffee...

The energy drink industry pulls in roughly 9 billion dollars annually, so it’s obvious that many of us turn to these sugary drinks when we need a...

Striking staff of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital are set to hit the streets today, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 to protest against what they say...

Not sure how to quit smoking cigarettes? Try one of these 20+ ways to stop smoking and start your path towards a healthier, smoke-free...

The management of a private mortuary, Toluwalase Hospital Morgue, located at Otunba Oladokun Street, in Igando area of Lagos State has ejected corpses deposited...

Residents of Bunkpurugu in the Bunkpurugu Yunyoo District of the Northern region are appealing to government for a district hospital following the increase in...

A vaccine has for the first time been shown to protect against the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea, scientists in New Zealand say. There are fears...

Data from 77 countries show that antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea – a common sexually-transmitted infection – much harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat. Gonorrhoea,...

Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health Organization has said. It warns...

A total of 224 inmates from the 43 prisons in the country tested HIV positive last year. The figure was made up of 192 males...

Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health Organization says. It is warning...

A joint project by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, US, has yielded great success in reducing...

A 22-year-old farmer, Amadu Razak and his 19-old wife Amina Razak from Bodada in the Jasikan District of the Volta region have welcomed a...

The Coalition of Cheated Medical Laboratory Technicians has issued a two-week ultimatum to the Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health to rectify...

The quest for children with cancer in Ghana to seek lasting treatment from Ghana’s health service has suffered a major blow regarding government’s refusal...

One-hundred and thirty-two pregnant women in the Tema Metropolis tested positive to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) between January and December, 2016. The figure shows...

"I rarely go into town and not come back with another Jose tattoo on my body, I must have 20 of just him. He's...

Girls as young as nine are seeking surgery on their vagina because they are distressed by its appearance, the Victoria Derbyshire show has been...

An outbreak of African swine fever has reportedly hit three districts of the Ashanti Region, leading to the killing of over 400 pigs between...

Members of the Coalition of Unposted Veterinary Technicians are picketing the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) today over the government’s failure to give...