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 […]
Ghana in 2017 recorded about 200,000 abortions, an equivalent to a national abortion rate of 26.8 per 1000 women between 15 and 49 years, a study by the Guttmacher Institute has revealed. Guttmacher Institute is a leading research and policy organisation committed to advancing sexual reproductive health and rights in the United States of America. […]
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 […]
Prof. Raphael Nyarkotey Obu , PhD & Lawrencia Aggrey-Bluwey In P.V. Manohar Panth vs. The State Bank of Hyderabad (31 January, 2014), the Court ruled that: “No particular branch of medicine can arrogate to itself the sole privilege of exclusive expertise. ”This means that mainstream medicine cannot arrogate to themselves supremacy in the healthcare industry. […]
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 […]
