Health

n average, sexual intercourse can last anywhere from 100 to 500 thrusts. It's a wide window, and totally dependent on personal stamina.But now, scientists...

Being overweight or underweight could knock four years off life expectancy, a study in a Lancet journal suggests.The report, one of the largest of...

A German former nurse accused of killing 100 patients in his care admitted Tuesday to the murders on the opening day of his trial.Asked...

Mothers should wait at least a year between giving birth and getting pregnant again to reduce health risks to mother and baby, a new...

Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has announced government, will in February next year, recruit 40,000 nurses to help deliver quality health care to all.He...

Medical Doctors in Ghana are worried over increasing unsafe abortion cases in the country. About 45 percent of abortions in Ghana remain unsafe.In 2017,...

Scientists in the UK and The Gambia say they have the first evidence that dogs can sniff out malaria.They have trained dogs to recognise...

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has put measures in place to empower its security unit to arrest imposters and middlemen peddling around the Hospital.Dr...

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, Yahoo Lifestyle will be publishing first-person accounts of those who have been affected by the disease, which...

A 13-year-old girl has given birth to triplets after she was raped by a candy seller on the street of Guatemala. The teenage girl identified...

Jim McCants took green tea capsules in a drive to get healthy in middle age. His doctors now say they left him needing an...

Mr. Vincent Fekpe, Volta Regional Blood Organizer, has observed that voluntary blood donors in the Region were gradually becoming paid donors.He described the situation...

Doctors need to get better at having difficult conversations with dying patients and not just in their final days, according to a report from...

Radiotherapy could increase the chances of survival for thousands of men with prostate cancer that has already spread by the time they are diagnosed,...

Singer Mzbel, who is known in private life as Belinda Nana Ekua Amoah says she has had anal s*x on several occasions.She made this...

Foods labelled ‘low cholesterol’When you're shopping and you see an item that says it’s low in cholesterol, you still need to check the nutrition...

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) ban on virginity test is a welcome relief: it is long overdue but better late than never.The practice has...

The nationwide vaccination against measles and rubella for children from nine months to five years has received low patronage as mothers feel reluctant to...

A salad nearly killed my brother. It was the...

Scientists say they have found a way to make self-lubricating latex condoms that become slippery on contact.It is thanks to a special, durable coating...

There are reports of widespread use of breast enhancing creams and injectibles among Senior High School students and other teenagers.The substances are also said...

There's a looming crisis over the world's growing appetite for meat. Could a chicken running around a farmyard in San Francisco hold the key...

The Deputy Minister of Sanitation has indicated the need to treat hand washing as an essential practice that has the potential of protecting people...

A woman whose husband pretended to have cancer has said his years of lying "stole so much of my life".Lucy Witchard, of Leicester, said...

I tried a bunch of different diets while...

Baby mice have been made with two mums and no dad, say researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.It took a substantial feat of...

Doctors in Britain will be able to legally...

Lizzie Porter lived with anorexia throughout her teens. Now in her late 20s, she's been discovering that those years of starvation have left a...

Any child who does not get at least eight hours sleep may suffer some mental problems.This, according to Emmanuel Aboakye, a psychologist at the...

The Australian government has issued a national apology to women affected by a vaginal mesh scandal, acknowledging decades of "agony and pain".Mesh implants are...

Reg Manteufel thought he had the flu. Seemingly out of nowhere on June 26, his face turned a deep crimson color. His legs swelled...

Parents who wake their children up early in order to beat traffic and get to school early may be exposing the children to mental...

A new study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, has said that people who walk at least 150 minutes per week -- or...

You’ve been seriously bloated, moody, and tired. You’ve got monster cramps, and your face is as simply as a 17-year-old boy’s. In other words,...

The following is the personal story of Kaylee Denmead, as told to Abby Haglage. Denmead will be getting a preventive double mastectomy in November because...

In the quest to find foods and drinks that will help flatten abs, there are a lot of big claims made by manufacturers and...

Despite the numerous interventions being made globally to reduce cases of breast cancer, the disease remains one of the most prevalent among women, claiming...