Over the past few years, an alarming health crisis has been brewing in Ghana mdash; the rapid surge in end-stage kidney ...

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the ...

A new study establishes that soda consumption is doing ever more damage to health — with rising rates of diabetes in regions ...

For about 95 per cent of the population, especially within the African continent, food is seen as a substance ingested just ...

Soda was a rare treat when Richmond Aryeetey was growing up in Ghana in the 1980s ... calories can increase your risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer. But this report brings ...

Objective The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and predictors of overweight and obesity in Burkina Faso using a population-based countrywide sample. We hypothesise that there is ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure. The new guidance comes from the ...