Health News
Sugary Drinks Increases Kidney Stone-Report
Risk Even If You Drink Just One Sugary drinks have been linked to kidney stones — even if you drink as little as only one serving a day. Yet there are other drinks that could actually reduce your risk of developing the painful stones. Dr. Gary Curhan, the senior author of the study recently published online in the Clinical Journal of the More...
VODEC to Prioritize Blood Donation Exercise
The Voice of Developing Communities (VODEC) a non-governmental Organization (NGO) has declared its intention to embark on a blood donation exercise. The group will on Friday, June 7, 2013 be at the Amasaman Municipal More...
‘Deception,’ Korle-BU Management In Cover-up Of Mess @ Maternity Ward
The leadership of the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital with its Board Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Eddie Annan and Prof. Afua Hesse respectively, have decided to continue deceiving the people of More...
American Team Visits Sunyani Regional Hospital.
The American visitors posed with the hospital staff A-30 member United States of America visiting team has held bilateral talks with the management of the Brong Ahafo Regional Hospital, Sunyani as part of efforts More...
New Maternity Block For Fomena Health Centre
The ward and theatre block A NEW maternity and theatre block for the Fomena Health Centre to promote health delivery has been inaugurated at the community in the Adansi North District of the Ashanti More...
Over 7m Africans receive HIV treatment-UN
The United Nations, UN, said on Wednesday that the number of people receiving antiretroviral treatment in Africa had increased from less than one million to 7.1 million in the last seven years. This is contained More...
Haiti’s health and job creation to improve with support from world bank
The Board of Directors of the World Bank has approved a $70 million grant to Haiti to increase access to maternal and child basic health services, while the whole economy will benefit from another grant for $20 More...
Ghana’s First Electronic Health Service Takes Off.
Prof. Agyemang Badu Akosa (left), prof. Edmund Delle (middle) and Mr. Patrick Dasoberi at the launch Ghana’s first electronic health delivery service to enable doctors to reach their patients online and bring More...
Johns Hopkins Scientist Slams Flu Vaccine
More ways to share… A Johns Hopkins scientist has issued a blistering report on influenza vaccines in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Peter Doshi, Ph.D., charges that although the vaccines are being More...
African Scientists Act To Eliminate Genomic Diseases
Inadequate funding and lack of mass-scale awareness-creation have been cited as the main barriers to eradication of some communicable and non-communicable diseases in the country. Chief Director of the Ministry More...
