Tag: Medical ethics

A five-month legal battle over the fate of a terminally-ill British baby that drew the attention of Pope Francis and ...

A total of 16 mentally deranged persons who were chained to trees for years and forced to fast to fast ...

Two Cambodians have been arrested for allegedly trafficking at least ten organ donors to India for illegal kidney transplants worth ...

The first large-scale clinical trial of a cannabis derivative known as cannabidiol shows it was able to cut the frequency ...

play videoMental health care is one of the biggest challenges confronting the Ghanaian health sector In 2012, Ghana passed Mental ...

‘I went to the web to find a new kidney’ - Matthew Pietrzyk Eleven-year-old Matthew Pietrzyk can now swim, run, ...

Dutch doctors have come out against a controversial proposed law that would allow assisted suicide for those who feel their ...

Over the last three weeks, we have had reports of seven people committing suicide including two young female undergraduates from ...

Stakeholders in the health sector have expressed worry about the proliferation of unqualified health personnel in health facilities, saying the ...

The Mental Health Authority has decided to establish a temporary helpline for persons contemplating suicide. The authority is, as well, ...

Stakeholders in mental health care are worried about the continuous exemption of mental health care from the National Health Insurance ...

A clinical psychologist and suicidologist at the University of Ghana, Dr. Joseph Osafo, has bemoaned the lack of seriousness in ...

A clinical psychologist and suicidologist at the University of Ghana, Dr. Joseph Osafo has bemoaned the lack of seriousness in ...

Mental and epileptic patients in the Northern Region requiring medical care have shunned health facilities due to the absence of ...

The Ghana Mental Health Authority has appealed to government to commit resources to funding mental health care, by employing mental ...

He was incoherent and agitated. Voices in his head told him to join ISIS, according to law enforcement sources. Authorities ...

In this report, Odimegwu Onwumere writes that a compassionate Nigerian rescued an insane young lady from the Abuja streets recently ...

So one Monday morning I was on my way to work cruising in a trotro, about two seats behind the ...

Health policy analyst, Dr Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, wants the Ghana Health Service to reorient the training of health professionals in the ...

President John Dramani Mahama has stated that although he is unaware about a recent threat by staff of the Accra ...