By Agnes Opoku Sarpong Parents have been urged not to deny adolescents the right to information on their Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH). Participants who made the call at a workshop in Accra yesterday said, it was time a “spade is called a spade”, adding that reproductive health was critical in upbringing of adolescents “We need […]
More than 200,000 lives could be saved annually if the goals of a new global strategy to defeat meningitis are achieved, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The first-ever roadmap to defeat bacterial meningitis, aims to reduce deaths by 70 per cent and halve the number of cases by 2030, in addition to […]
Source: Graphic Online Globally prostate cancer is of significant public health importance. In the United States (US), it is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men besides skin cancer. The disease disproportionately affects black men and it tends also to be more aggressive with poorer prognosis. It is a leading cause of cancer deaths in […]
Low-carbohydrate diets are popular for weight loss and diabetes control. However, for most of the past 50 years, medical and public health experts have instead embraced low-fat diets, concerned about the health effects of saturated fats on cardiovascular risk factors like LDL cholesterol. As a result, low-fat and fat-free foods have proliferated—many of them high […]
Source: APO Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners launched the first ever global strategy to defeat meningitis – a debilitating disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. By 2030, the goals are to eliminate epidemics of bacterial meningitis – the most deadly form of the disease – and to reduce […]
