HEALTH

Walking 8,900 steps a day could protect the brain against decline and brain tissue loss from Alzheimer's disease, according to a study. Researchers tracked the movement of elderly people and measured the levels of a protein linked to…
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About nineteen thousand nine hundred (19,100) people were infected with HIV last year. Of this number, three thousand, three hundred (3,300), were children under 14 years. About 260 thousand HIV/AIDS orphans are reported to be in Ghana.…
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Living in a polluted and busy area could raise the risk of suffering depression in old age by a third, a study has found. People over the age of 50 who were exposed to 'nuisances' in their neighbourhood, including pollution, noise and…
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Staff member of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) have embarked on a six-kilometerHealth Walk distributing fliers about the Bank’s products and services to promote the business of the Bank to people who exercise on the Ayi-Mensah to…
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Construction works on a 120-bed hospital facility for the Kumawu District Hospital in the Sekyere Kumawu District of Ashanti Region, left abandoned in September last year, after its construction started in 2015, would commence in the next…
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The Upper West Region recorded the highest number of malaria cases and also topped in malaria-related deaths from 2011 to 2016, according to health officials, who describe the trend as alarming and threatening. The officials who made the…
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The Ministry of Health has extended the deadline to July 16, for the recruitment of private and public trained nurses who completed their training from 2012 to 2016 from accredited Health Training Institutions. A statement signed by Nana…
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Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) has been identified as the leading cause of deaths in Ghana due to the proliferation of junk foods and inadequate physical activities among the public. Dr. Denis Odai Laryea, the Programmes Manager for…
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The Minister for Local Government And Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama says seventeen thousand people die annually in Ghana as a result of fumes from traditional cookstoves and open fires in the country. According to her, over two…
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The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has declared a public health emergency following the detection of the poliovirus type-2 in the Northern Region capital, Tamale. A public health emergency, according to the WHO, is "an occurrence or imminent…
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