Serving The Ghanaian Chicago Community
Friday, December 4, 2020
New Jersey nurse Sofia Burke said it took one family member letting their guard down “for one second” for Covid-19 to infect seven of the eight people in her household. Burke spoke with CNN’s Don Lemon through an oxygen mask Wednesday. She said she had been treating coronavirus patients throughout the pandemic, […]
The Strong Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association has suspended its ongoing strike action due to a court injunction served on the organization by the National Labour Commission (NLC). The group has been in negotiations since 2019. The strike was to pressure the government to meet the demands for improved […]
Source: www.ghanaweb.com A murky $150 COVID-19 test contract awarded to Frontier Healthcare Services Limited (FHSL) incorporated in Ghana on July 21, 2020 – just 40 days before President Akufo-Addo opened the air borders – has set tongues wagging. FHSL is embroiled in an ownership suspicion as it’s linked to a company […]
The strike action by nurses and midwives in the country is hitting hard on healthcare delivery in the Ashanti region as most health facilities have shut their doors to patients. A visit to some government health facilities by the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday morning revealed that patients have been […]
Read the story from where it originally appeared According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cholesterol levels should be no higher than 200 mg/dL. Yet, an estimated 95 million US adults have levels higher than 200 mg/dL, and nearly one-third of them have extremely high cholesterol levels beyond 240 […]
Answer From Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D. Chicken eggs are an affordable source of protein and other nutrients. They’re also naturally high in cholesterol. But the cholesterol in eggs doesn’t seem to raise cholesterol levels the way other cholesterol-containing foods do, such as trans fats and saturated fats. Although some studies have […]
