Messages of support and well wishes have started pouring in for members of the Kumasi Asante Kotoko football club involved in a tragic accident Wednesday night on the Accra-Kumasi highway. Players and officials of the team were returning to Kumasi after their Wednesday’s match day 22 Premier game with Inter Allies in Accra when the … Read more
Novak Djokovic is out of Wimbledon after retiring during his quarter-final against Tomas Berdych with an injury. The former world number one lost the first set 7-6 (7-2) to the Czech, and was 2-0 down in the second when he had to retire. Djokovic, 30, had treatment on a right shoulder injury during his last-16 … Read more
The popularity of meditation is increasing as more people discover its benefits. Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. You can use it to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration. People also … Read more
Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health Organization has said. It warns that if someone contracts gonorrhoea, it is now much harder to treat, and in some cases impossible. The sexually transmitted infection is rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics. Experts said the … Read more
The Chinese hospital caring for cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo has decided to invite US, German and other foreign experts to treat him in China following international pressure to let him go abroad. The legal bureau of Shenyang — the northeastern city where Liu is being treated — said in a statement Wednesday the invitation … Read more
South Africa great Barry Richards believes the rise of Kagiso Rabada has “lessened the pain” of Dale Steyn’s absence ahead of a Test series in England. Steyn, perhaps the best fast bowler of his generation, has been ruled out of the four-Test campaign with a longstanding shoulder problem that has sidelined him since the end … Read more
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condemned murder in the name of protecting cows, which are worshipped by the country’s majority Hindus, after a string of killings targeting Muslims and other minorities. “Killing people in the name of Gau Bhakti (cow worship) is not acceptable. This not something Mahatma Gandhi would approve,” Modi said. … Read more
The Information Services Department (ISD) in the Obuasi district in collaboration with Anglogold Ashanti has successfully organized a series of programmes to mark this year’s edition of World Sickle Cell Day in Obuasi. The programme which took place between Monday, 19th June and Friday, 23rd June, 2017 was under the theme: “Know your sickle cell … Read more
When Pakistani authorities burst into a makeshift hospital in Lahore this year, doctors were caught mid-way through two illegal kidney transplants, the local donors and Omani clients still unconscious on the tables. The doctors were allowed to finish the operation then arrested, along with their assistants and the Omanis, in a raid Pakistani authorities say … Read more
Tiger Woods will miss this week’s PGA National, skipping his usual host role while continuing treatments to manage pain medications after an impaired driving arrest last month, tournament officials said Monday. The former world number one, whose charity foundation stages the event, was arrested May 29 near his Florida home for impaired driving. A breathalyzer … Read more
Sri Lanka’s cricketers have been suffering from high levels of injuries because most players are flat footed and wearing ill-fitting shoes, an expert said Monday. Australian podiatrist Nicholas Sprenger was contracted by Sri Lankan Cricket to get to the bottom of the squad’s injury problems, which last year saw nine out of 12 fast bowlers … Read more
Former world golf number one, Tiger Woods, says he is getting “professional help” to manage medication for pain and sleep loss as he tries to return to fitness. Woods, 41, is recovering from a fourth back operation since April 2014. The American 14-time major winner was breathalysed in Florida in May after being arrested on suspicion … Read more
Imagine being in pain every day of your life. Your knees hurt, you feel sharp pains in your elbow and your entire body is in constant pain. To complicate your woes, you often have low energy because your red blood cells have broken down. Well, this is the everyday experience of people living with sickle … Read more
I am Yasmine Ponle Okudzeto, a 37 year old Muslimah, an entrepreneur, a mother and a sickle strong warrior. Today, 19th June is the World Sickle Cell Day and it is my hope to create enough awareness about Sickle Cell. I was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia when I was three months old, and since … Read more
A team of surgeons in China have beat the odds to remove 30 inches of large intestines from a 22-year old man suffering from Hirschsprung disease – a rare condition which caused severe constipation to build up in his colon over the years. The unnamed patient is thought to have been born with the Hirschsprung disease … Read more
DEVELOPMENT cannot thrive in an environment of instability. This is because development is dependent on peace and stability. ALSO, stable and peaceful environment enables citizens to contribute their quota towards the advancement of their countries. IT is for the above reason that Weekend Today is worried about the killings of law enforcers by armed robbers. … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released this year’s Essential Medicines List (EML), adding new treatments for HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), tuberculosis, and leukemia. The list, which is comprised of medicine considered be most important for addressing public health needs, includes 433 drugs, with 30 new drugs for adults and 25 new ones for … Read more
Some military personnel close to slain Major Maxwell Adam Mahama had wanted to rally soldiers to storm and kill residents of Denkyira-Obuasi, a spokesperson for the late soldier’s family has suggested. It would have been bloody had it not been the intervention of the family, Zakaria Sakara Ahmed indicated on Sunrise morning show on 3FM92.7 … Read more
Some military personnel close to slain Major Maxwell Adam Mahama had wanted to rally soldiers to storm and kill residents of Denkyira-Obuasi, a spokesperson for the late soldier’s family has revealed. It would have been bloody had it not been the intervention of the family, Zakaria Sakara Ahmed indicated on Sunrise morning show on 3FM92.7 Wednesday. … Read more
Some military personnel close to slain Major Maxwell Adam Mahama had wanted to rally soldiers to storm and kill residents of Denkyira-Obuasi, a spokesperson for the late soldier’s family has revealed. It would have been bloody had it not been the intervention of the family, Zakaria Sakara Ahmed indicated on Sunrise morning show on 3FM92.7 … Read more