The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq came under pressure on Friday as lower oil prices weighed on energy companies and a drop in shares of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ. N) and Pfizer (PFE.N) hurt healthcare stocks. The S&P 500 healthcare sector .SPXHC was down 0.78 percent after having risen for the past five trading days. … Read more
In the developed nations, there are private family enterprises that were set up in small garages, centuries ago, but have become household names today, and thriving. Examples are the Toyotas, Kawasakis and Nissans of Japan; Tata and Mahindras of India; and Samsungs and Daewoos of South Korea. These enterprises were supported and encouraged by their … Read more
Before now, there have been suggestions that local industries should be supported in order to produce guaranteed pharmaceutical products for local utilisation, because no nation progresses by importing everything it uses without the local content. This has made the opinion expressed by Prof. Temitope Alonge, recently signifying that expensive drugs can be a thing of … Read more
By the time his parents brought him to the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, he had pierced his body with blades and knives. The 23-year-old university undergraduate looked cool, well-dressed and spoke English fluently, but it wasn’t long before the nurses who attended to him knew that he was mentally deranged. “His speech was incoherent, … Read more
Background: Currently, Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines are regulated in Ghana under the auspices of the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Practice Council of the Ministry of Health (TMPC). Traditional or indigenous medicine is defined according to the World Health Organization as practice that is specific to a particular jurisdiction. Alternative and Complementary in Ghana is … Read more
This is the continuation of the part 1. PROFIT – MONEY AND MORE MONEY! Dr. George said conventional medicine is all about medicine and in reality that we are living today. Modern medicine is run by big pharmaceutical companies whose interest is in making money from patenting expensive drugs – there is no primary interest … Read more
This is the concluding part of the article. So now why do the authorities forbid alternative medicine? A very important question but Dr George answered and said because they are serving the industry and the industry cannot make money with herbs, vitamins, and homeopathy. They cannot patent natural remedies. That is why they push synthetics. … Read more
A 38-year-old man, alleged to be a specialist in hacking into the emails of banks and other business institutions to defraud them of various amounts, has been arrested by the police. The suspect, identified as Gadiel Baah Nyumutei, according to the police, hacked into the emails of some business institutions and succeeded in transferring a … Read more
Clinical trials of vaccines for the deadly Ebola virus should soon get underway and will likely be ready for widespread use by early next year, the World Health Organisation said Saturday. “I think it’s realistic,” Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director-general of the UN health agency, told AFP. There is currently no available cure or vaccine for … Read more
What should happen if a massive viral outbreak appears out of nowhere and the only possible treatment is an untested drug? And who should receive it? The two American missionaries who contracted the almost-always-fatal virus in West Africa were given access to an experimental drug cocktail called ZMapp. It consists of immune-boosting monoclonal antibodies that … Read more