Health

At least 1,433 people died from road accidents across the coun­try, from January to August, this year, the National Road Safety Authority (NSRA), has said. This represents 11.27 per cent …

The leading causes of death in the country now are heart diseases and stroke, the Ag. Director of the National Cardiothoracic Centre (NCTC), Professor Mark Mawutor Tettey, has disclosed.  Quoting …

A group of Civil Society Organisations demanding government’s removal of taxes on sanitary pads has thrown its weight behind the Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu’s move to propose …

Source: Prof. Raphael Nyarkotey Obu During my court attachment at the Cape Coast High Court, I noticed Bankyi Ampesi is sold in some joints.  In the Gambia as well, cassava is …

The World Health Organization (WHO) says almost 2.4 million Ghanaians could be suffering from various degrees of mental illness. The organisation believes this calls for enhanced cooperation in the area …

It has been established that some young people in the country exchange sex for needs such as food, education and sanitary pads without knowing the implications of their actions. Those …

Threats to the country’s biodi¬versity, including water and forest resources, are gradually undermining the livelihoods of more than 6,000,000 Ghanaians who rely on it for alternative sources of income, according …

Health experts have said that increasing advocacy on adolescent mental, sexual and reproductive health was an effective way of dealing with them. They were speaking at a national forum in …

The Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, has described the government’s Agenda 111 project as one of the most unprecedented health infrastructural projects in the world. The initiative, …

A new study on nearly 200 consumer products and food samples across four regions in Ghana has revealed worrying levels of lead contamination in the popular metal cookware, ‘dades3n’. The …