Health

Because rosacea can leave your skin inflamed and extremely sensitive, rosacea care requires patience and a gentle touch. Good skin care can help alleviate many rosacea symptoms, while improper skin care can worsen the disease. The problem for those with rosacea is that they have a fragile stratum corneum, the topmost layer of skin. This [...]

Malaria, an entirely preventable and treatable disease, still kills an estimated 660 000 people worldwide every year; these are mainly children under five years of age in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa is the most affected continent with about 90% of all malaria deaths. Every year, about 219 million cases occur. However, unlike the rest of Africa, [...]

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has dragged the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to the Supreme Court to force doctors to call off their strike with immediate effect and comply with the NLC’s ruling. Striking doctors on Monday intensified their strike by withdrawing all emergency services until their concerns are fully addressed. Doctors across the country [...]

A church minister has stormed out of a Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) hearing, in Pretoria, at which one of two charges against a doctor who treated him were withdrawn. Reverend Andrew George, 63, of Life Enrichment Ministries on the West Rand, said on Monday that the HPCSA was “totally off course”. Dr Estelle [...]

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) may have lost the 2012 December elections in a rather rueful manner, but from all indications the party remains undaunted about its commitment to the well-being of Ghanaians. On Wednesday February 13, 2013, the party organized a Valentine Day Blood Donation Campaign at the Freedom and Justice Park, Kwame Nkrumah [...]

The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) will this year introduce biometric identity cards which will be issued instantly at the point of registration to subscribers. It would also start work on piloting electronic claims (E-claims) processing and host an extended stakeholder review of the capitation pilot in the Ashanti Region to inform its improvement and [...]

Cassava or yuca is a nutty flavored, starchy tuber of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) from the South-American origin. Its sweet crunchy underground tuber is a popular edible root since centuries in many parts of Africa, Asia and South American indigenous people. Together with other tropical roots and starch-rich foods like yam, taro, plantains, potato, etc., [...]

Cancer advocates like Lisa Flowers, MD, and Kevin Ault, MD, from Emory University School of Medicine want all women to hear one simple message: “Routine screenings save lives!” Nearly 100 percent of women diagnosed at the pre-cancer stage of cervical cancer survive. “Over 50 percent of women who present with cervical cancer have never had [...]

In almost every early morning, a group of Ghanaian patients are waiting outside the therapy room of the “New East Hospital” in downtown Accra, capital of Ghana, hoping for an early turn to see a Chinese doctor. When hearing his name, Kingsly Anane, a 45-year-old Ghanaian accountant, rapidly walked into the therapy room, climbed up [...]

Men’s prostate cancer risk is set to treble in one generation, a new study has found, the Daily Mail Reported. According to the study conducted by charity, Cancer Research UK, 14 percent of men born in 2015 will be diagnosed with the disease at some point in their life, roughly one in seven. Individuals born [...]