Wealth, Poverty Propping Up Pakistan’s Illegal Kidney Trade
When Pakistani authorities burst into a makeshift hospital in Lahore this year, doctors were caught mid-way through two illegal kidney ...
Tag: Clinical medicine
NTP Receives GHc215,000.00 In Fight Against TB In Ghana
Persues Mining Ghana Limited, on Wednesday, donated GHȼ215,000.00 to the National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP) to help organise the 20th ...
New Data On Breast, Ovarian Cancer Highlight Age Risks
Researchers have unveiled new data that they said would help better assess breast or ovarian cancer risks in women, identifying ...
Kofi Annan Calls For Fight Against Snakebites
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for a global fight against snakebites and the need to reduce impact ...
Polio Paralyses 17 Children In Syria
A polio outbreak in war-ravaged Syria has paralysed at least 17 children since March, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, ...
Yemen Cholera Death Toll Passes 1,100
Cholera has killed 1,170 people in war-ravaged Yemen and the number of suspected cases is now at nearly 2,000 a ...
Indian Girl With Rare Condition Dies Suddenly
An Indian girl who made international headlines when a rare condition caused her head to swell to more than twice ...
US Student Dies After Release From N. Korea
Otto Warmbier, the US student released in a coma last week after nearly 18 months in detention in North Korea, ...
US Student Evacuated From N. Korea Has Died
Otto Warmbier, the US student released by North Korea in a coma last week after more than a year in ...
Boy Drops Out of School Due To Elephantiasis
Diseases could deprive you deprive you from enjoying the beauty of life and has the potential of crippling your dreams ...
Surgeon Removes 30 Inches Of Man’s Constipated Colon
A team of surgeons in China have beat the odds to remove 30 inches of large intestines from a 22-year ...
Wenchi Hospital Gets A Urological Ward
A German-based Ghanaian Philanthropist, Mr Kwame Abrefa Busia, has constructed an ultra modern 48-bed capacity ward for the Urological unit ...
Did Unpaid Salaries Kill the Deputy Speaker’s Aide?
“No health issues, phenomenal athlete, came to work every day — just as healthy as can be,” said a colleague ...
Anti-Diabetes Drug Also ‘lessens Kidney, Heart Disease’ Risk
An anti-diabetic drug that lowers blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes sufferers also significantly cuts the risk of cardiovascular ...
Wenchi Hospital Records High Urological Cases
Wenchi Methodist hospital has recorded an increase in cases of prostate related diseases for the past year. Records from the ...
ECG Spends Over GHC94,000 To Replace Burnt Poles
The Central Regional Office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) spent GH¢94,671.24 to replace electric poles burnt through bush ...
Syria Sees First Polio Cases In Three Years
Three new cases of polio have been recorded in Syria in the first outbreak of the virus in the country ...
Scorpions the New Threat For Displaced Mosul Civilians
They survived the fighting in their home town but displaced Mosul residents now face the threat from snakes and scorpions ...
100,000 Cholera Cases, 789 Deaths, In Yemen In Past Month
A cholera outbreak of more than 100,000 cases has erupted in war-ravaged Yemen, killing nearly 800 people, in just over ...
Melanoma Patients Who Remove Lymph Nodes Don’t Live Longer
People diagnosed with melanoma who then undergo surgery to have lymph nodes removed near the original tumor site do not ...