HEALTH

Here's some unsexy news about getting it on: STD rates are at an all-time high. For guys, gonorrhea is becoming increasingly common. Data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows that gonorrhea rates have doubled in guys…
Read More...

Which of the following should go nowhere near your vagina: a penis, a finger, a tampon or talcum powder? According to a jury in Missouri in July, it is the talc: the court found in favour of 22 women who claimed their ovarian cancer had…
Read More...

Registered Mental Health Nurses from three training institutions on Monday, 3 September, began the first online professional licensing examination. The first 374 candidates from the College of Health Sciences in Yendi, the Nursing…
Read More...

Dr Thabo Matsaseng, Fertility expert at the headquarters of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that tubal blockade and damages resulting from caesarean section surgeries are compounding the risks factors of infertility in women.…
Read More...

The barometer survey results of the National Health Research Systems (NHRS) of the World Health Organisation African Region has been released. It coincided with the high-level meeting of African Union policy-makers, strategic partners…
Read More...

Health authorities in Ashanti Region are reporting increasing rate of mental health cases. Over 3,000 cases were recorded in the first half of this year, up from 2,555 in 2016 and 2,994 in 2017. Officials attribute the trend to…
Read More...

Mr Mustapha Sanah, Executive Chairman of Northern Ghana Aid (NOGAID), an NGO, has congratulated Dr Daniel Asare, the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. He said the criteria of competence,…
Read More...

Fadila Ndebugre, a young nurse who was trained at the Dunkwa-On-Offin Nursing Training College in the Central Region, has had to resort to head-ferrying of loads (kayayo) for shoppers at the Madina market, for survival, as she awaits her…
Read More...

Forty health personnel have successfully completed a course in Sign Language Proficiency, organised by the Ghana Health Service (GHS), in collaboration with the Supreme Sign Language Institute. The four-week course, which was the second…
Read More...

There is a growing obesity trend in children with the fast food boom and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. Learning healthy eating habits early prevents a lifetime of weight struggles. 1. Sit at the table to eat Eating in front…
Read More...