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<title><![CDATA[Stem cells could create new skin to help burns victims ]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38225.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[French researchers say they have found a way of using human embryonic stem cells to create new skin which could help serious burns victims.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pragmatic measures vital to attaining health related MDGs]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38207.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ghana would be incapable of attaining the three heath-related MDGs unless pragmatic measures are taken.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Poor lifestyles worsoning diabetes rate]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38206.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dr. Daniel Kertesz, a representative of the WHO in Ghana, on Thursday attributed the high rate of diabetes in the country to the poor lifestyles of Ghanaians.
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<title><![CDATA[Kumbuour: No more wasteful consultants]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38194.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[The government can no longer keep medical consultants for doing nothing, Dr Benjamin Kumbuor, Minister of Health, has said.
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<title><![CDATA[Faulty elevators in Korle-Bu threaten lives of nursing mothers]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38156.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Expectant and nursing mothers at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra are living in constant fear over the malfunctioning of the lifts.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Women misuse drug as emergency contraception]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38155.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[A study conducted in Kumasi indicates the wide use of a pill, popularly known as &#8220;N&#8221; tablet, as a form emergency contraceptive among women.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hajia Taimako makes strides in herbal medicine]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38152.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[A herbal expert and healer, Dr Salamatu Taimako, has achieved some fame both in Ghana and in Germany as far as herbal medicine is concerned.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pregnancy timeline]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38107.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[A timeline of some of the key changes to mother and baby during pregnancy.

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<title><![CDATA[Tiny chip could diagnose disease ]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38105.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have demonstrated a tiny chip based on silicon that could be used to diagnose dozens of diseases.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Thyroid 'risk from pre-eclampsia']]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38104.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pregnant women with the potentially dangerous condition pre-eclampsia may be more likely to suffer from thyroid problems, research suggests.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plastic chemicals 'feminise boys' ]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38029.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chemicals in plastics alter the brains of baby boys, making them &quot;more feminine&quot;, say US researchers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Campaign on vaccination against Cervical Cancer underway]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38021.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Females between the ages of 10 and 50 years could protect themselves against cervical cancer by being vaccinated. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Meditation 'eases heart disease' ]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/38013.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Heart disease patients who practise Transcendental Meditation have reduced death rates, US researchers have said.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Contraceptive demand will grow 40 % by 2050 - UN]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/37980.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United Nations estimates that by 2050, contraceptive demand will grow by 40 per cent as record numbers of young people enter their reproductive ages.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nurses urged to be professional in the discharge of duty]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/37975.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Registrar of the Nurses &amp; Midwives Council, Rev. Veronica Darko, has urged nurses and midwives to be professional in the discharge of their duties. 
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<title><![CDATA[Don't shy away from dispensing at OPDs, pharmacists told]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/37891.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pharmacists have been reminded that they could only deliver quality service to out-patients if they do not shy away from dispensing medicines at Out-Patient-Departments (OPDs).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Palliative care is human right for terminally ill']]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/37884.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Palliative Care (PC) is to relieve suffering, whether physical, spiritual or emotional, and to promote quality of life for the terminally ill.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Some people think HIV is a curse &#8211; Study]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/37881.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Research indicates that people in some communities in the country believe that people living with HIV are cursed.
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<title><![CDATA[One Key Found for Living to 100]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/37849.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have zeroed in on one apparent key to long life: an inherited cellular repair mechanism that thwarts aging and perhaps helps prevent disease. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;Health Alert&lt;/b&gt;: Microwave and the cancer scare]]></title>
<link>http://news.myjoyonline.com/health/200911/37822.asp</link>
<description><![CDATA[A nutritionist, Mrs Irene Boate, on Thursday advised that the use of microwaves should be minimised to help reduce the rate of cancer infections.
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