• Vietnamese cardiologists

    23/10/2012 07:31

    Vietnamese doctors do not just learn and receive help from their foreign colleagues. They are leading others in the region treating congenital heart defects.

  • Dengue fever caused the death of 10-year-old girl in Dong Nai

    05/08/2012 07:56

    A 10-year-old girl died from dengue fever on Saturday in the southern province of Dong Nai, bringing fatalities from the disease in the province to five. More than 5,685 dengue fever cases have been reported this year in HCMC.

  • Trial signals breakthrough in search of new TB drugs

    25/07/2012 01:59

    A novel approach has cleared a major hurdle when Phase II clinical trial results have proved it could kill over 99 percent of patients' TB bacteria within two weeks and could be more effective than existing treatments, according to a study...

  • FAO helps Vietnam control bird flu

    25/07/2012 01:48

    International Measures will be discussed at two seminars in HCM City on July 24 and Vinh City on July 31. The plan will be applied in strategies to analyse risks and control epidemics at regional level. According to Doctor Laurence Gleeson,...

  • A woman 'delivers' just 1 baby after scans showed twins

    24/07/2012 01:31

    In a eerie incident, a woman who delivered at a HCM City hospital has refused to leave after doctors gave her just one child saying some scans had shown her carrying twins.

  • A leech was removed from child’s windpipe in Vietnam

    23/07/2012 01:02

    Doctors in Da Nang city said last Thursday they had successfully removed a possibly fatal leech from the windpipe of a six-year-old boy after it had lived there for more than one week.

  • HCM City supervises pork to control blue-ear pig disease

    20/07/2012 01:06

    The Ho Chi Minh City Animal Health Division has strengthened inspection of pigs being transported into the city from provinces with blue-ear disease breakouts, its chief said.

  • Free soap to help control HFMD disease

    20/07/2012 12:37

    The province of Da Nang's health department has provided free soap to households to try and curb an outbreak of hand-foot-mouth (HFM) disease.

  • Economic drop boosts beer consumption in Vietnam

    18/07/2012 01:46

    Vietnamese people are drinking more beer among the economic downturn, according to a recent report by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

  • 13th HIV case was detected in Mekong Delta commune

    18/07/2012 01:39

    The 13th HIV case was detected in a tiny Mekong Delta commune where 12 men have already tested positive for the deadly virus, according to the Ben Tre Province HIV/AIDS Prevention Center.