Mr John Eliasu Mahama, Programmes Officer for Alliance For Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR), an NGO has stressed the need for integration of HIV/AIDS services and Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) activities for the effective and efficient utilisation of resources provided by Global Fund Proposal for Ghana.
He said such integration would also provide clients with a holistic [...]
the all-natural alternative to traditional toothpaste won the highly-respected Editor’s Choice Award from The NaturalNews.com Network, a non-profit collection of public education websites covering topics that empower people to make positive changes in their health, environment and consumer choices.
which comes in a variety of flavors — including citrus, peppermint and chocolate — is based in [...]
Most women arriving in parts of the province of Kasai Occidental in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) among a new wave of some 27,000 deportees from Angola, have been sexually abused, a local health official said.
“There are many injured people and 80 percent of the women [who arrived] had been raped,” Pierre Didi Mpata, [...]
With the latest strike by junior doctors now behind them, District Health Boards (DHBs) will return their focus to getting a settlement in the ongoing dispute.
More than 2000 junior doctors returned to work today after a second 48 hour strike within a month.
Hospitals around the country reported no major difficulties over the last two days [...]
Four Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn officials, including a vice president, each have been charged with a misdemeanor count of failing to report to police the alleged sexual assault of a stroke victim.
The Scottsdale City Prosecutor’s office pressed the charges in the highly publicized case of the 22-year-old victim, who could only communicate the alleged assault with [...]
“If I feel crappy, most of the time I shouldn’t trade,” he said. “I should save my money. You know, testosterone and confidence go hand-in-hand.”
But academics are only just beginning to explore the relationship between emotions and finance, and the study is intriguing because it provides biological insight into phenomena such as irrational exuberance, in [...]
Finally, in 2002, Ward, now 62, an expert in family enterprises, saved his voice by becoming a guinea pig. Traveling to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, he became the first patient to undergo a specialized laser treatment that cuts off blood supply, a process known as angiolysis, to the tumor without removing the cancer.Dr. Steven [...]
Here�s a list of classes and events in Douglas County during the next week.Ongoing:Children�s Bereavement Support �Wings of Hope� � Grief and loss support group for children and their caregivers. Information on meeting dates and registration: 677-2384.Mammography Screening Services � Mercy Outpatient Imaging, 1887 W. Harvard, by appointment only. Information: 677-4418.Outpatient Diabetes Education � Mercy [...]
University of New England psychology researcher Rosa Pinniger says she hopes to prove the passionate two-person dance is an effective alternative therapy for depression by carrying out a six-week trial.
Ms Pinniger says the nature of the tango is such that participants switch off the automatic negative thought patterns that contribute to anxiety and depression.
In learning [...]
Dr. Pirjo Ilanne-Parikka, of the Finnish Diabetes Association in Tampere reports that a cluster of diabetes risk factors including elevated waist circumference, blood pressure, triglyceride cholesterol, and blood sugar, as well as low levels of high-density lipoproteins (good cholesterol) are collectively known as the metabolic syndrome.
Ilanne-Parikka and colleagues report 15 per cent reductions in both [...]
