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AIDS Commission’s Conference to Feature US Military HIV Research Programme
The Ghana AIDS Commission has set May 8-11 for the fourth National HIV and Research Conference (NHARCON) to enable players in the sector to discuss up-to-date research and evaluation findings.
The conference would also assess the…
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‘Africa Needs to Adopt Innovative Approaches to End Diseases’
Mrs Samira Bawumia, Wife of the Vice President, says in the face of declining resources for development agencies, civil society organisations and regional communities need to adopt innovative approaches to end Tuberculosis, Malaria and…
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FDA Warns Against the Use of Unregistered Medical Devices
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has cautioned members of the Ghana Federation for Traditional Herbal Medicine Practitioners Association (GAFTRAM) against the use of unregistered medical devices, whether imported or locally manufactured.…
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US Soldier Gets World’s First Penis and Scrotum Transplant
A team of US doctors has successfully carried out the world’s first total transplant of a penis and scrotum.
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, performed the operation on a soldier who had been wounded by a bomb…
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COP Renovates Kandin Health Centre
The Yendi Area of the Church of Pentecost, headed by Apostle William Kojo Edzorhoho, has renovated the Kandin Health Centre in the Tatale-Sanguli District of the Northern Region.
The renovation, which cost the Church a total of…
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Over 6,000 Capsules of Tramadol Seized in Western Region
The Western Regional Office of the Food and Drugs Authority has so far seized more than 6,000 capsules of Tramadol from licensed chemical stores across the length and breadth of the Region.
Tramadol, a synthetic narcotics drug, used to…
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Residents Worried as Maggots, Flies Take Over Ejura Slaughterhouse
Residents of the Ejura/Sekyedumase Municipality in the Ashanti Region fear an outbreak of infectious diseases if the unhygienic conditions that exist in the only slaughterhouse in the area are not addressed.
Butchers at Ejura prepare…
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Infanta Malaria Signs MoU with Others to Prevent Malaria Infection
The Infanta Malaria Prevention Foundation, have signed a Memorandun of Understanding (MoU) with Merck, a leading science and technology company, and ASPIRx, a bio-pharmalogical manufacturer, to explore solutions for malaria prevention in…
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Novartis Invest Over 100m Dollars to Fight Malaria
Novartis, a global pharmaceutical company has announced a five-year commitment to fight malaria in the sub-Saharan Africa as well as investing over 100 million US dollars to advance research and development of next-generation treatments.…
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Lack of Proper Counselling Affecting Family Planning in Central Region
The Central Regional Technical Working Group on Family Planning on Tuesday identified lack of proper counselling by some service providers as one of the basic problems militating against measures to increase acceptance.
They alleged that…
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