Malaria and typhoid fever are among the most endemic diseases in the tropics. The emergence of multi-drug resistant strains of Salmonella typhi and Plasmodium falciparum poses a big challenge to eradication of both ...

Background: In most African countries, including Ghana, treatment of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection is based on syndromic management owing to lack of laboratory equipment and resources in primary care facilities ...

Recent discoveries indicate that many G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) and channels involved in pain modulation are able to form receptor heteromers. Receptor and channel heteromers often display distinct signaling ...

Most prescribers and patients in Ghana now opt for the relatively expensive artemether/lumefantrine rather than artesunate- amodiaquine due to undesirable side effects in the treatment of uncomplicated malaria. The study ...

Background: Asymptomatic malaria in pregnancy evades most fever-based surveillance systems yet causes significant morbidities such as anaemia in the pregnant woman and low birth weight in the neonate. Open Access Objective: ...

Background Individual studies on the relations between ambient air pollution and the risk of stillbirth have provided contradictory results. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to summarise the existing ...

Context: Various parts of Ziziphus abyssinica Hochst ex. A. Rich (Rhamnaceae) have been used in Ghanaian and African traditional medicine as an analgesic. However, there are little scientific data to sup- port the ...

Aqueous and ethanolic extracts of the stem bark of Boswellia dalzielli (Hutch) were qualitatively screened for phytochemicals and then investigated for antimicrobial activity using agar diffusion method with Escherichia ...