E-Cigarettes ‘should Be On Prescription’
E-cigarettes should be available on prescription, according to Public Health England (PHE). The agency wants them to be prescribed on ...
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Children ‘exercise Less As They Get Older’
Children ‘exercise less as they get older’ The number of children doing an hour of exercise a day falls by ...
Google NHS Deal Rebuked Again By DeepMind Panel
An independent panel set up to oversee the activities of Google’s DeepMind has agreed that its initial deal with a ...
Thousands In London Protest Against Austerity, PM
Thousands of people marched through London on Saturday to protest at austerity and demand Prime Minister Theresa May's government resign ...
Global Ransomware Attack Causes Turmoil
Companies across the globe are reporting that they have been struck by a major ransomware cyber-attack. British advertising agency WPP ...
Nursing Training School Students Threaten Demo
The students of the Tanoso Community Health and Nursing Training School (CHNTS) near Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region have ...
NHS Cyber-Attack Was ‘launched From North Korea’
British security officials believe that hackers in North Korea were behind the cyber-attack that crippled parts of the NHS and ...
Make Boards Compulsory For Hospitals – Lecturer
There is a need for Ghana to pass a law which mandates all health facilities to have an effective board ...
‘Disgraced’ Breast Surgeon Ian Paterson Jailed For 15 Years
Breast surgeon Ian Paterson has been jailed for 15 years after carrying out unnecessary cancer operations. Paterson, 59, was convicted ...
Blood Safety Information System Launched In Ghana
Ghana has become the second country in Africa, after Lesotho to launch a Blood Safety Information System (BSIS). The BSIS ...
Google AI Defeats Human Go Champion
Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo artificial intelligence has defeated the world’s number one Go player Ke Jie. AlphaGo secured the victory after ...
US and UK Far From Top 10 In Global Health Rankings
The US and UK lagged far behind other leading nations in a new global healthcare report. Although both nations are ...
Microsoft Withheld Update That Could Have Slowed WannaCry
American software giant Microsoft held back from distributing a free security update that could have protected computers from the WannaCry ...
Technology Ransomware Cyber-Attack Threat Escalating
Friday's cyber-attack has affected more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries, Europol chief Rob Wainwright says. He told the BBC ...
Europol Says It Was Unprecedented In Scale
A cyber-attack that hit organisations worldwide including the UK’s National Health Service was “unprecedented”, Europe’s police agency says. Europol also ...
Next Cyber-Attack Could Be Imminent, Warn Experts
Another major cyber-attack could be imminent after Friday's global hit that infected more than 125,000 computer systems, security experts have ...
Zuarugu, Bawku Nursing Colleges Matriculate 453 Trainees
The Zuarungu and Bawku Nursing training colleges have jointly matriculated 453 general nurse and health assistant clinical trainees. The matriculation ...
Unprecedented Cyberattacks Wreak Global Havoc
Cyber security experts rushed to restore systems on Saturday after an unprecedented global wave of cyberattacks that struck targets ranging ...
Massive Cyber-Attack Hits 99 Countries
There are reports of infections in 99 countries, including Russia and China. A massive cyber-attack using tools believed to have ...
Massive Ransomware Infection Hits Computers In 99 Countries
The ransomware has been identified as WannaCry A massive cyber-attack using tools believed to have been stolen from the US ...