HEALTH

Ghana is making plans to secure Ebola vaccines from the World Health Organization (WHO) to mitigate the effect of the virus in case the country records cases, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye…
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Nigerian authorities have put health workers on red alert following the resurgence of Ebola epidemic in Guinea. Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said they would monitor all entry points to pick out any suspected cases, local media reports.…
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THE 44 YEAR old Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) project at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) will be pulled down on the coming weeks. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government had provided the needed amount of money to once-and-for-all…
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When it comes to memory, sleep is a Goldilocks issue: both too much and too little aren’t good. Aim for “just right,” says a report from the Harvard-based Nurses’ Health Study. “Our findings suggest that getting an ‘average’ amount of…
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Millions of people are familiar with it - snoring. The number one annoyance in the bedroom at night. About one in two men and one in four women of middle age or older snores in their sleep. Previously dismissed as just an annoying…
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African women and women of African descent who use hair straightening creams and lotions on their hair stand a higher risk of developing fibroid and cancers of the female genital tract which can lead to infertility, says Professor Agyeman…
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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) of Ghana has approved a herbal medicine known as Cryptolepis Sanguinolenta for clinical trial of COVID-19 treatment.  In a statement, FDA disclosed that the herbal medicine was submitted by the “School…
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President Akufo-Addo has said the country is anticipating the arrival of more than seventeen million COVID-19 vaccines by the end of March 2021.  According to him, government is hoping to vaccinate the entire population beginning with 20…
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The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has describe Ghana's COVID-19 situation currently as dire and alarming with a potential of an exponential rise in cases. The Association said most of the designated facilities for isolation and…
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The supervisor of the Takoradi Veterinary Laboratory, Dr. Simon Gbene, has disclosed that they are currently recording a high COVID-19 positivity rate raging around 30 percent per daily sample tested. Dr. Gbene speaking to Citi News in…
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