Health

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has welcomed proposals by the Ghana Health Service for doctors to apply for jobs. According to the Vice President of...

Medical doctors and dentists will from next year be employed under a quota system being introduced by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Director-General of GHS,...

If you wear disposable contacts, you’re probably aware that they’re supposed to be chucked after you use them for a certain number of days....

Authorities of the Ankaful Psychiatric hospital say they are likely to turn away new patients if government does not provide them with funds. According to...

It was a real moment of jubilation when Dr. Adu Boateng, Chief Executive Officer of EndPoint Homeopathic Clinic, was crowned the Best CEO of...

The Kpando Municipal Assembly has placed a temporary ban on the sale of puffer fish in the Volta Region after its consumption claimed the...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said it would not countenance any action or practices by medical doctors likely to impact negatively on quality...

The Ministry of Health has set up an investigation machinery to check bribery and other improprieties that may arise with the introduction of the...

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Despite the ban on the importation of used undergarments and sanitary ware over six years ago, trade in these items are still thriving on...

A new PornHub study suggests that millennials aren’t that into boobs. Yup. Breasts. Millennials are ruining those, too. In collaboration with Mashable, PornHub carried out a...

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has said that the introduction of the quota system for nursing training colleges has nothing to do with the...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has since last year stopped registering body creams with bleaching agents. The acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the...

The People For Health Project will be launching an appraisal report on the 0.5 percent District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) for HIV programming on...

A staff at the Pharmacy Council Marian Torjagbo failed to serve her bond after returning from a Master's degree program she completed in Atlanta,...

Only 16 out of 61 superintendent pharmacists in the Volta Region were regular at post between January and June this year, Mr Ken Osei...

The Coalition of Bonded Allied Health Professionals has revealed that over 500 of its members have been notified of their employment. According to Coalition, the...

Government is confident it will clear all debts owed to service providers under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) within the next 12 months. According...

Children, adult male and female patients, are forced to share the same ward at the Beposo Health Centre in the Sekyere Central District of...

Authorities of the Central Regional Hospital have disclosed, they are recording increasing cases of kidney infection from persons linked to illegal mining. Hospital authorities believe...

Cervical cancer could completely be eliminated, according to research, thanks to a new vaccine being reviewed by Australia's Pharmaceutical Authority. A Melbourne-based study, led by...

A medical doctor with the National AIDS Control Programme is advocating for responsible sex to prevent infection and spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) Edith Asare...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday urged newly qualified doctors to accept postings to rural communities. He said young doctors who were posted to...

Statistics provided by the medical team from the Ministry of Health and the Ga South Municipal Hospital (Akawe) in the Greater Accra Region indicates...

The Food & Drugs Authority (FDA) is warning the public to beware of fake and expired drugs on the market. Public Relations Officer of Food...

The Nurses and Midwifery Council (NMC) has revealed that health institutions in the country are churning out products more than required for consumption by...

Government’s inability to procure vaccines on time to restock hospitals that needed them caused a shortage in supply three weeks ago. However, distribution commenced Wednesday,...

Hepatitis B is a public health concern globally, however a majority of people in Ghana still think it is a form of witchcraft or...

Government’s inability to procure vaccines on time to restock hospitals that needed them caused a shortage in supply three weeks ago. However, distribution commenced Wednesday, August 2,...

The government has been asked to scale up its funding of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes to sustain the fight against the spread of the infection. Ghana...

As many as 72 unregistered drugs were imported into Ghana without prior approval of the Foods and Drugs Authority (FDA), according to The 2012...

The number of blind people across the world is set to triple within the next four decades, researchers suggest. Writing in Lancet Global Health, they predict...

Type "sexual health" into a search engine, and it is likely that you will be bombarded with pages of articles covering anything and everything,...

If you had doubts about the benefits of your big bum beyond its sex appeal, worry no more, as a study has found that...

Almost everyone has Wi-Fi at home due to its convenience. However, there have been some safety concerns and the conclusion is that Wi-Fi can be...

Scientists have found a 72 per cent decline in sperm count in African men over the past 50 years says a study. It was published...

Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo has called on pharmacists in the country to help government minimise fraud associated with the handling of the National...

Scientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos of a piece of faulty DNA that causes deadly heart disease to run in families. It...

Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is one of the most enviable social intervention schemes in the health sector amongst peer countries in sub-Saharan...

Looking beautiful is any lady’s desire, but there seem to be issues you can’t take care of yourself. To counter that, Bright Side gathered several secrets that will save you a lot of time...