Geneva – On World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new publication and issued an urgent call to governments worldwide to ban all flavors in tobacco and nicotine products, including cigarettes, pouches, hookahs, and e-cigarettes. This measure aims to protect young people from the dangers […]

Geneva – The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly concluded on May 27, with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, commending Member States for adopting historic measures to enhance global health security. A key outcome was the approval of the first-ever global agreement aimed at strengthening preparedness and […]

Geneva- The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its inaugural position paper on immunization products designed to safeguard infants from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a leading cause of acute lower respiratory infections in young children globally. RSV is responsible for approximately 100,000 deaths and over 3.6 million hospitalizations annually in […]

The image is stark, unsettling, and has reverberated through the Ghanaian political landscape: Bernard Antwi Bosiako, affectionately known as Chairman Wontumi, the formidable Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, emerging from EOCO custody with a visibly wobbly gait, leaning heavily on a party member for support. It’s a […]

The 37 Military Hospital has announced the temporary closure of its Medical Emergency Unit for a routine fumigation exercise. The closure is scheduled to take place from June 4 to June 14, 2025. According to the hospital’s public relations department, the fumigation is necessary to maintain a clean and safe […]