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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and its nine neighbouring countries have endorsed a joint framework to strengthen cross-border collaboration on preparedness and response to Ebola virus and other disease outbreaks.…

Two Americans and a British scientist have been named winners of  the 2019 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for discovering how the body's cells sense and react to oxygen levels. Announcing the prize at the Karolinska Institute in…

Scientists were left shocked when traces of illegal party drugs were found in freshwater shrimp swimming in Britain’s countryside rivers, the Mail online reports. Drugs such as cocaine and ketamine were discovered by a team…

1.6 million people  affected in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe The World Health Organization (WHO) is providing urgent assistance to meet the health needs of thousands of people impacted by flooding in Malawi,…

Urges citizens to embrace healthy diets to prevent diseases President, Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo devoted a substantial part of his third State of the Nation Address (SONA)  on  Thursday, February 21, to health care, as…

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has called on countries where women suffer the burden of fistula to urgently develop strategy to save them. In a statement to commemorate the 2018 International Day to End Fistula, today May 23,…

The World Health Organization (WHO) Director General,  Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,  on Sunday reversed his decision to name Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador, following widespread uproar against the…

World Health Organization, WHO, has cleared the way for Brazil’s hosting of this year Olympic games, hence putting an end to earlier fears the games might be cancelled or shifted over raging Zika virus in the nation. Making the…