Even light-to-moderate drinking increases blood pressure and the chances of having a stroke, according to a large genetic study in The Lancet, countering previous...
Health ministry officials in Democratic Republic of Congo have announced that the Ebola treatment centre located in the district of Katwa has reopened.
The centre...
In a world first, US doctors have transplanted a kidney from one HIV-positive patient to another.
The operation took place at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore,...
The World Health Organization has announced that Mozambique will start vaccinating its citizens against cholera next month.
The vaccination will take place in areas that...
Rwanda is rolling out a major campaign to explore the use of bamboo for industrial packaging and hygienic paper products.
The country's environment ministry and...
Mozambique has been hit by a powerful tropical storm, resulting in major destruction already in some areas.
In some towns billboards were seen blown off...
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
