The quality of air in Accra remains poor and high above the Ghana national standards and World Health Organisation (WHO) requirements, the Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr Henry Kwabena Kokofu has said. Contributors to the poor air quality include, mining, forestry, cement, manufacturing industries, vehicle emissions, and waste burning. The EPA […]
By Kamau Maichuhie More than 200 million women in developing countries who wish to prevent pregnancy are not using modern contraception, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has revealed. The UN agency said more than 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. UNFPA Executive Director Dr Natalia Kanem, however, […]
According to a new study by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and collaborators, daily avocados may help redistribute a woman’s abdominal fat into a healthier profile. 155 overweight and obese adults participated Randomized controlled trial It provided one meal a day for 12 weeks. Women who took avocado as part of their daily diet had […]
Melbourne researchers have led a global collaboration to develop a simplified blood test that increases the overall screening efficiency for type 1 diabetes (T1D). As a disease that requires lifelong treatment of insulin, T1D can affect individuals of all ages. Current screening methods to identify those who are at risk are costly and logistically difficult. […]
France’s director-general of public health services says children under 12 years of age are not concerned by the Covid vaccination drive because of the lack of adequate scientific data on the subject. He said, however, that he was confident the health protocol for the back-to-school period would be sufficient to ward off the fourth wave. Jérôme Salomon, […]
