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		<title>Four Best Reasons To Drink Water</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. It will help you de-stress. Being sure to sip water throughout a stressful day can soothe stress-induced symptoms as diverse as headaches, tense muscles, fuzzy thinking, a pounding heart, and low energy. That&#8217;s because stress taxes all your basic body systems &#8212; and when you&#8217;re dehydrated, the effects are magnified. Water won&#8217;t wash your [...]
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		<title>PIP boob job boss arrested for fake work done</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boss of the company which supplied dodgy breast implants to women across the world has been arrested, according to reports. Cops nabbed Jean-Claude Mas &#8211; the founder of Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) &#8211; at his home in southern France this morning. Mas&#8217;s firm sparked an international health scandal &#8211; with thousands of women fearing [...]
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		<title>Men To Be Rewarded For Antenatal Attendance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henceforth, men who accompany their wives to the antenatal clinic for four consecutive times in 2012, will qualify for an award, under a new scheme instituted by the Atiwa District Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The award scheme, the details of which were not disclosed is part of efforts to reduce maternal deaths [...]
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<li><a href='http://www.ghananewsnow.com/2011/10/17/women-still-deliver-at-home/' rel='bookmark' title='Women Still Deliver At Home'>Women Still Deliver At Home</a> <small>Despite interventions such as free maternal health and emergency ambulance...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.ghananewsnow.com/2011/01/27/ho-nhis-is-number-one-in-volta-nhia/' rel='bookmark' title='Ho NHIS is number one in Volta &#8211; NHIA'>Ho NHIS is number one in Volta &#8211; NHIA</a> <small>The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has adjudged the Ho...</small></li>
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		<title>HIV Caregivers Worried About Sex Lives Of Some Clients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caregivers to persons living with HIV in the Ho Municipality are powerless in their efforts to rein in some clients whose sex lives point to deliberately infecting others with the virus. The issue came up for prolonged discussions at the last of three workshops organized by the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA)-Ghana in Ho [...]
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		<title>Solution to autism&#8230; an international challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first female radiographers in the Gold Coast era, Mrs Salomey Francois, has raised great concern about the problems faced by children living with autism and has called on all to join hands to help in finding solution to the situation. She shared her concern during an interview with Joy FM’s Ultimate Health [...]
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		<title>Cancers &#8211; are they preventable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cancers can be referred to as a group of diseases in which there is uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells in the body and there are over 200 types of cancer. Technically speaking, cancers are a variant of the diseases described above in which the disease spreads locally or the abnormal cells travel through the blood [...]
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		<title>Advanced cell technology: Stem cell retinal implants safe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early results from the world&#8217;s first human trial using embryonic stem cells to treat diseases of the eye suggest the method is safe, say researchers. US firm Advanced Cell Technology told The Lancet how two patients who had received the retinal implants were doing well, four months on. Trials of the same technique have now [...]
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		<title>Gene switch &#8216;key to heart health&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists may be closer to understanding how genes can influence serious heart conditions, says a Nature Genetics report. The failure to turn off a specific gene at the right time in an embryo&#8217;s development could mean illness later in life. Mice in which the gene was left active were born apparently healthy, but suffered heart [...]
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		<title>FDB alerts public of fake cocoa powder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Surveillance Unit of the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has noticed the distribution and sale of fake Hords Brown Gold Cocoa Powder that bears features similar to the original product. A statement signed by the Chief Executive of the Board, Dr Stephen Opuni, copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra, said Buchberger Enterprise, [...]
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		<title>&#8216;Almost All&#8217; African Abortions Unsafe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rising proportion of abortions worldwide are putting women&#8217;s health at risk, researchers say. The World Health Organization study suggests global abortion rates are steady, at 28 per 1,000 women a year. However, the proportion of the total carried out without trained clinical help rose from 44% in 1995 to 49% in 2008. The Lancet, [...]
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