The Ministry of Health has initiated a policy to make Ghana a health tourism destination in Africa by creating specialised health centres of excellence for the treatment of complicated diseases.

Health services in the community are reaching breaking point in the UK, the Royal College of Nursing is claiming.

Overdue babies are at higher risk of health problems, research suggests.

A study found babies born after 42 weeks were more likely to suffer behavioural problems such as ADHD in early life.

Half of the UK's population cannot see many stars because the night skies are still "saturated" with light pollution, campaigners have warned.

Some 53% of those who joined a recent star count failed to see more than 10 stars in the Orion constellation.

At least three people in London with HIV have died after they stopped taking life saving drugs on the advice of their Evangelical Christian pastors.

The women died after attending churches in London where they were encouraged to stop taking the antiretroviral drugs in the belief that God would heal them, their friends and a leading HIV doctor said.

A drug which is already licensed for use could be used to treat sight problems in some albino people, say US researchers.

An 83-year-old man has become the oldest person in the UK to donate a kidney while still being alive, the NHS Blood and Transplant service has said.

Nicholas Crace, from Overton in Hampshire, is also the oldest "altruistic" kidney donor - he will never meet the recipient of his organ.

Doctors at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) will begin undertaking kidney transplantation in the last quarter of this year.

This will bring great relief to many kidney patients in the country who need kidney transplant but cannot afford the high cost of travelling and transplantation abroad.