Health

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...

The Ministry of Health has appealed to picketing members of the Coalition of Unemployed Private Nurses to return home as their issues are addressed...

At a global meeting of experts organised by Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) and Wilton Park, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a renewed effort...

The Volta Region has recorded 10% decline in sanitation concerns just one year after UNICEF introduced the ‘Tippy Tap’ hand wash system in the...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Oheneba Kasempa Enterprise, producers of Abensuo, Mr. Alex Tenkorang has been adjudged the eye care philanthropist of the...

The Friends Eye Centre in collaboration with the Kog Kriationz network is to establish a state of the art Eye Centre at Sefwi Wiawso...

An estimated number of more than twenty thousand people within the six political districts in the Sefwi enclave of the Western Region are undergoing...

The two nurses who went viral for broadcasting on Facebook Live have been sacked. Trudy Ewurama Marcel and her colleague nurse Ramatu both workers of...

People who drink three to four times a week are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who never drink, Danish researchers...

Director-General of the GHS, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has revealed a newborn baby dies every 15 minutes in Ghana representing 90 deaths daily. “While 21, 000...

Two hundred and seventy-five (275) people died of HIV/AIDS in the Ashanti Region, last year. Mr. Dennis Bandoh, the Regional Focal Person, who announced this,...

Men’s sperm counts have fallen by almost 60 per cent since the 1970s, according to major research which warns that modern life may be...