The Ashanti region in 2024 witnessed a significant surge in cancer cases, with a total increase of 4,553, which is 33.60% more cases in 2023. With breast cancer cases escalating dramatically by 92.12%, cervical cancer also showed a substantial increase of 75.17%, but in contrast, prostate cancer cases decreased by 17.55% during the same period. […]
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How starch diet of plantains daily keep cancer away
Resistant starch is simply starch that resists digestion in the small intestine. It reaches the large intestine and feeds the good bacteria that live in our guts. It turns out that this gut fermentation is really important to our metabolism. Scientific studies are showing that we need to return to the historically consumed slow-to-digest resistant […]
Many places have cancer-causing gas — Prof. Amoako
Many places in the country have a high concentration of radon gas, a natural occurring gas whose long exposure to humans can cause lung cancer and other forms of cancers. An Associate Professor of Health Physics at the School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana, Professor Joseph K. Amoako, who disclosed this in […]
Ghanaian leads UK team on brain disorder breakthrough
People who suffer Alzheimer’s, a brain disorder, can now heave signs of relief as a major headway has been made in diagnosing the disease with a single brain scan. A Professor of Cancer Pharmacology and Molecular Imaging at the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, Eric Aboagye, has led a team of researchers […]
Details: 6 deadly diseases you probably didn’t know marijuana can control
Marijuana or cannabis, in several parts of the world, is being used to alleviate suffering from various diseases. Nevertheless, it remains a controversial drug while critics fear that relaxing laws on its use can lead to drug abuse and other crime-related activities. Globally, more and more states, particularly in America, are passing laws to allow […]
Health alert: Having sex with 10 people in your lifetime ‘increases cancer risk by 90%’-Experts
Notching up plenty of bedroom conquests can nearly double your cancer risk, a study reveals. Experts found older women who had ten or more lifetime lovers were 91 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with the disease, compared to those who only had one. And promiscuous men saw their chances of a tumour rocket […]
My encounter with cancer and how it transformed my life-Multi Media’s Jim Aglah tells the painful story of losing his only daughter
“Everything happens for a reason. Nothing is a coincidence. There are times God will allow us to go through difficulty so later on, we can be instrumental in helping others overcome” – Joel Osteen My name is James Aglah, a General Manager with Ghana’s leading private broadcast media organization, the Multimedia Group. I am also […]