HEALTH

Health is number 3 of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), however, when it comes to driving change and influence on the scale needed to achieve all of these ambitious goals, we need to mobilise key power pillars: Government,…
Read More...

Dr. Gwendolyn Amarquaye-Bayitse, resident dentist of Pepsodent Ghana’s Dental TV Show Time with the Dentist, has thrown light on smoking, other destructive habits, and their harmful effects on oral health. Aside from the dire effects…
Read More...

It is high time the government passed a law to ban prayer camps from interfering in maternal healthcare delivery in the country. This is because the activities of most prayer camps are inimical to maternal healthcare delivery in general…
Read More...

A year ago, the Mastercard Foundation and Africa CDC launched the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative – a now $1.5 billion partnership with four key objectives: To purchase COVID-19 vaccines for at least 65 million people To…
Read More...

Waste Or Create, a pro-Africa not-for-profit environmental organization founded in 2014, is set to launch a series of events as part of its change journey in the past five years of their existence. Leading the list is the One Earth, One…
Read More...

Members of Parliament’s Committee on Health have expressed concerns about some major challenges confronting the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and called for urgent government intervention to address them. The Committee maintains…
Read More...

Cardiologist and Senior Physician Specialist, Dr Aba Folson, has explained that not all heart attacks come with classic signs such as severe chest pain. She noted that some patients who experience heart attacks may not recognise it until…
Read More...

A mixture of tomato paste and cola drink causes a significant increase in blood levels, indicating an anti-anaemic potential. This conclusion was arrived at in a study conducted by scientists at the Department of Biochemistry and…
Read More...

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr. Okoe Boye says his outfit is in the process of including mental health treatment in the National Health Insurance Scheme’s benefit package. Dr. Okoe Boye…
Read More...

Sexual weakness or dysfunction among men has become a common thing in Ghana and several businesses and individuals have been advertising several solutions and products that they claim can improve sexual potency especially among men.…
Read More...